
Busen Region
(South Georgia)
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Location: 54° 11' 6" S 36° 42' 36" W
An area of ice free land midway along the north coast of South Georgia. Bounded on the west by Neumayer and Fortuna glaciers, to the north Fortuna and Stromness bays, to the east by Cumberland Bay, to the south by West Bay, and incorporating Lewin Peninsula. The area includes the former whaling stations of Leith, Stromness and Husvik. Named in association with Busen Point, after the whale catcher SS Bucentaur of the Tönsberg Whaling Company, in which members of the 1928 Discovery Investigations survey party took passage to Husvik.