Cape Carysfort

Cape Carysfort is a headland in the north east of East Falkland between Macbride Head and Volunteer Point.

Geography

Loch Head Pond, which is 4.8 kilometres (3 mi) long, is just behind the cape to the west.[1] Water from Loch Head Pond enters the sea below Cape Carysfort into Cow Bay.[2] Although Mullet are a marine fish, they have been found in Loch Head Pond.[3]

History

A shanty house was built at Cape Carysfort to cover the farming lease which extended to 2,400 hectares (6,000 acres).[4] The house was later moved to the edge of Loch Head Pond, and it has since been vacated and has been donated to the museum at Port Stanley.[5]

In 1921, Cape Carysfort was the site of the shipwreck of SS Guvernøren, a whale oil tanker which, under its former name SS Imo, had been involved in the massive 1917 explosion that caused severe damage to Halifax, Nova Scotia.[6][7]

In August 1855, the British ship Carlton (or Carleton in some records) was carrying coal from Swansea to Panama when she was wrecked off Cape Carysfort.[8] Her cargo was taken into Stanley by another ship and at least six of the crew from the Carlton then settled in the Falklands.[9]

Name

The Spanish name for the cape is Cabo Corrientes.[10] The cape was named by John Byron in 1765 after one of the Lords of the Admiralty, Baron Carysford.[8]

Geology

Peat sampling in the 2020s, revealed tephra deposited by the Hudson Volcano eruption from as far back as 4200-3900 Before Present time.[11] The sampling revealed that the peat at Cape Carysfort was 6 metres (20 ft) deep before bedrock was discovered, the deepest peat that was found in the six sampling sites.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Lakes and ponds". falklands-southatlantic.com. Retrieved 11 May 2026.
  2. ↑ "Cow Bay • Johnson's Harbour". johnsonsharbour.com. 11 September 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2026.
  3. ↑ "Freshwater fish; the natural environment". falklands-southatlantic.com. Retrieved 11 May 2026.
  4. ↑ "Johnson's Harbour or Berkeley Sound Farm, Cow Bay, Cap Carysfort, Eagle Point and Volunteer Point Stations" (PDF). nationalarchives.gov.fk. p. 2. Retrieved 10 May 2026.
  5. ↑ "Loch Head • Johnson's Harbour". johnsonsharbour.com. 11 September 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2026.
  6. ↑ "Falkland Stamps!". Falklands Philatelic Bureau. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 July 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
  7. ↑ "Imo". Ships of the Halifax Explosion. Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. 18 February 2009. Archived from the original on 24 April 2010. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
  8. 1 2 "Johnson's Harbour or Berkeley Sound Farm, Cow Bay, Cap Carysfort, Eagle Point and Volunteer Point Stations" (PDF). nationalarchives.gov.fk. p. 1. Retrieved 10 May 2026.
  9. ↑ "1850-1874 Archives". Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust. Retrieved 10 May 2026.
  10. ↑ Jorge G. Fernandez (1969), H-411 Islas Malvinas (Isla Soledad), Buenos Aires: Servicio Hidrografia Naval de la Sectretaria de Marina, retrieved 26 June 2017
  11. ↑ Panaretos, Panayiotis; Monteath, Alistair J.; Thomas, Zoë A.; Albert, Paul G.; Jensen, Britta J.L.; Tamhane, James; Woudstra, Shaun; Jones, Gwydion; Scaife, Rob; Bentley, Michael J. (December 2025). "Distal cryptotephra records in the Falkland Islands refine South American tephrochronology". Quaternary Science Reviews. 369: 2, 8. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109599.
  12. ↑ Thomas, Zoe (21 May 2020). "What can peat tell us about the past and future climate of the Falkland Islands?" (PDF). www.south-atlantic-research.org. Retrieved 10 May 2026.

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