Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Jenny Buttress

(King George Island)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 61° 58' 34" S 57° 41' 36" W
rising to c. 200 m above Destruction Bay, King George Island, following survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Admiralty Bay' in 1948, air photography by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956, and further survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1958, was named after the sealing ship Jenny from the Isle of Wight, which was found drifting in Drake Passage by the whaling ship Hope (Capt. Brighton) in September 1840; her crew were all dead and the log entered to 17 January 1823.