In this ‘Stories’ section, we take you a little deeper to find out more about the people, the places, the history and the activities concerning the cemeteries etc. on South Georgia.
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New Information on the Leith (old/town/Jericho) Cemetery
December 2025 Thanks to Bob Headland, who has found some correspondence between the Magistrate and Station Manager at Leith from 1919. This includes a map showing who is buried in all eight graves in the older cemetery in the middle of Leith station. At the time the station was located in the river plain to…
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New Photograph of Alex McNair’s 1960 Leith Funeral
The South Georgia Museum’s Whalers’ Memory Bank Project has unearthed a new photograph from the collection donated by the family of Jock Murray.