Port Foster [SEP] continent
Port Foster
Port Foster is one of the safest harbours in Antarctica, located in Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands.
History.
The harbour was known to sealers as early as 1820, and in its early history was called "Port Williams", after Captain William Smith's brig, "Williams"; or "Yankee Harbor", because of the number of American sealers who harboured there.
A few years later it was named Port Foster after Henry Foster, commander of , who made pendulum and
- Godfrey Foster, born Mch. 4, 1818, died Sep. 3, 1879. This and the preceding stone near each other and nearly alike.
- Flora Fairbanks, daur of C. & G. Foster, died Feb. 10, 1879, aged 25 years. Marble upright head and footstone.
- My husband P. O. Craddock born Sep. 22, 1824 - died Jan. 8, 1884. White marble head and footstone and wooden curbing. The four above graves are in the south-east corner of the yard