Besides ships these companies had a whaling station on South Shetland.
Deception Island, South Shetland Islands Long ago, volcanic pressure on Deception Island resulted in a tremendous eruption that caused the island's peak to explode.
Tidal waves also raked the islands of South Georgia, South Shetland, South Orkney, and the Falkland island groups.
And as to South America, with its Guiana, its archipelago of South Shetland, its Georgia, Jamaica, Trinidad, etc., that belongs to the English, too!
The feature is named after the British sealing ship Enchantress under Captain W. Bond that operated in the South Shetland in 1821-22.
Historically the trade had a large impact on the exploration and colonization of Siberia, northern North America and the South Shetland and South Sandwich Islands.
The nominate population breeds from Cape Horn to the Kerguelen Islands while exasperatus breeds along the Antarctic coast in the South Shetland and other islands.
Deception Island is an island in South Shetland off the Antarctic Peninsula that has, ironically, one of the safest harbours in Antarctica.
In a second season Biscoe visited New Zealand and the Chatham Islands, and then made for South Shetland.
A voyage of exploration encompassing the Antarctic Peninsula, the Weddell Sea, and the South Shetland and Falkland Islands.