Grytviken Cemetery (Grytviken, South Georgia)
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The cemetery contains not only the remains of whalers and sealers, but the grave of the explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton. Buried here after his death during the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition to circumnavigate Antarctica
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Shackleton
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Coordinates: 54°17'6"S 36°30'26"W
- Thatcher Peninsula 4.6 km
- Cumberland East Bay 5.8 km
- Cumberland West Bay 7.9 km
- Jacobsen Bight 28 km
- South Georgia 31 km
- Royal Bay 44 km
- Bay of Isles 59 km
- King Haakon Bay 63 km
- South Sandwich Deep 687 km
- Fosa Meteor 713 km