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Leith Harbour Cemetery

The Cemetery lies near the reservoir and has a commanding view over the whaling station and Stromness Bay. The Cemeteries of South Georgia contain the graves of whalers mainly, but also those of sealers of the 1800s.

This young man, Sigurd Andreasen was only nineteen when he was laid to rest in 1919.