Cape Paryadin

Cape Paryadin is a headland at the south-western end of the Paryadin Peninsula at the north-western extremity of South Georgia.

This headland was discovered by Captain James Cook in 1775 and resighted by Bellingshausen's Russian Antarctic Expedition in 1819. Bellingshausen named the headland Mys Paryadin after an officer of the expedition ship Vostok, Shturman [navigator] Yakov Paryadin (also spelled Poryadin). Various spellings have appeared on charts over the age since discovery, the most extreme being 'Cape Paradise' on Hardy's chart of 1967.

From here to the peninsula's northern headland, Cape Alexandra, runs the Paryadin Ridge.

Links

• Location map: 54°4’11"S, 38°-0’45"W
• Gazetteer and Map of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Cape Paryadin