Tyzack Bay

Updated 6 July 2005

This records my latest Tyzack family investigations and findings. Please let me know if you come across any new facts.

Sometime in April 2005 I came across a place called Tyzack Bay. It is situated in some remote islands in the Antarctic Ocean. Naturally I have tried to find how they became so named. Unfortunately some French mapmakers changed the name around 1915 because they thought the name sounded of German origin. Strangely they changed it to Le Verrier Baie, not after the glassmaking Tyzacks but after a French astronomer.

Although discovered first by Kerguelen in 1772, I suspect Captain Rhodes probably named them when he spent eight months mapping the islands in 1799. Perhaps there was a Tyzack abord his ship the Hillsborough.

I have e-mailed the administrator who could not give me the source of the name. There has been some research done on the names of all the islands but it is too vague.

If anyone discovers anything I should be very pleased to hear.

kerguelen

Latitude: 49° 7' 0 S
Longitude : 69° 34' 60 E
(Degrees, minutes and seconds)

Kerguelen Islands

Volcanic archipelago in the Indian Ocean, part of the French Southern and Antarctic Territories; area 7,215 km/2,787 sq mi. They were discovered in 1772 by the Breton navigator Yves de Kerguelen and annexed by France in 1949. Uninhabited except for scientists (centre for joint study of geomagnetism with Russia), the islands support a unique wild cabbage containing a pungent oil.

Tyzack Bay

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