Anthony de la Roché was a 17th-century English maritime explorer and merchant, born in London to a French Huguenot father and an English mother, who took part in a joint venture established by English and Dutch shipowners in the Spanish port city of Cádiz in order to engage in the lucrative New World trade.
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Chiloé Island
Nautical chart of Le Maire Strait and Isla de los Estados area; caution notes warn of local "very strong currents", "dangerous and heavy tide race" and "heavy race and foul tide"
17th-century merchantman
Drygalski Fjord, a possible place of La Roché's stay in South Georgia
Satellite image of the southeast end of South Georgia
A 1777 south-up chart by Capt. James Cook, according to which La Roché's strait running between Cooper Island, South Georgia and Clerke Rocks is 67 km wide (being equal to 36 minutes of latitude), and centred at .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}54°55′S 35°20′W / 54.917°S 35.333°W / -54.917; -35.333, while South Georgia itself extends from 53°57'S to 54°57'S latitude and 36°W to 38°15'W longitude
Satellite image of (left to right) Willis Islands, Stewart Strait, Bird Island and Bird Sound off the northwestern tip of South GeorgiaHistorical Figures born in the 1700s 6
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Anthony de la Roché was a 17th-century English maritime explorer and merchant, born in London to a French Huguenot father and an English mother, who took part in a joint venture established by English and Dutch shipowners in the Spanish port city of Cádiz in order to engage in the lucrative New World trade. During a commercial voyage between Europe and South America he was blown off course in Drake Passage, visited the island of South Georgia and sighted Clerke Rocks in 1675, thereby making the first discovery of land in the Antarctic. In doing so he crossed the Antarctic Convergence, a natural boundary of the Antarctic region that would be described two and a half centuries later by the British Discovery Investigations and the German Meteor Expedition.
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