USS Teuthis enters Mare Harbour, Falkland Islands
enters Mare Harbour, Falkland IslandsCHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FOURCHAPTER FOURFalklands
FalklandsUSS TEUTHIS—33 NM EAST OF KELP POINT
USS TEUTHIS—33 NM EAST OF KELP POINTUSS TEUTHIS—The Falkland Islands archipelago sits on the Patagonian Shelf in the South Atlantic Ocean, about 300 miles east of the Patagonian coast. The shelf swings south of east for 500 miles to South Georgia Island. There, it curves south for another 500 miles around the South Sandwich Islands, evenly spaced mountain peaks pushing up from the deep ocean like a string of pearls on a necklace, then flaring out westward for 600 miles to encompass the South Orkney Islands, and then another 500 miles past Elephant Island to the tip of Palmer Peninsula jutting north from Antar
