McCarthy Island as named after Timothy McCarthy, who sailed on the "Endurance" during an expedition for the Antarctic under which captain?
McCarthy Island (South Georgia) McCarthy Island is an island, 1 nmi long, lying in the entrance to King Haakon Bay on the south side of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Timothy McCarthy, a seaman on the "Endurance" during the British expedition under Ernest Shackleton, 1914–16. McCarthy accompanied Shackleton in the "James Caird" from Elephant Island to King Haakon Bay.
MacKenzie Bay MacKenzie Bay is a relatively small embayment of the western extremity of the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica, about 20 nmi northeast of Foley Promontory. On February 10, 1931, the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) sighted a much larger embayment here and made an airplane flight to sketch its limits. They named it "MacKenzie Sea" after Captain K.N. MacKenzie, the master of the expedition's ship "Discovery" in 1930–31. Breakout of a large part of Amery Ice Shelf has drastically reduced the size of this feature; in 1968 the bay was 15 nmi wide. Several Norwegian whaling ships sighted the original embayment nearly simultaneously with BANZARE; the whale-catcher "Seksern" (Captain Brunvoll) reached this area on January 13, 1931, and the "Torlyn" (Captain Klarius Mikkelsen) on February 13, 1931.