Johan Gunnar Andersson
Despite being founded by a Norwegian, the settlement's name, Grytviken, is due to Swedish archaeologist Johan Gunnar Andersson and means "the Pot Bay". The name was coined in 1902 by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition and documented by the surveyor Johan Gunnar Andersson, after the expedition found old English try pots used to render seal oil at the site. Grytviken is built on a substantial area of sheltered, flat land and has a good supply of fresh water. Although it was the largest settlement on South Georgia, the island's capital and administration was based at the British Antarctic Survey research station at King Edward Point. The station closed in December 1966 when dwindling whales stocks made it uneconomical.