William Scoresby - Legacy

Legacy

A number of places have been named after him, including:

• the Lunar crater Scoresby;
• Scoresbysund, now Ittoqqortoormiit on the east coast of Greenland
• the Scoresby Sund fjord system;
• the Melbourne suburb of Scoresby, Victoria in Australia, which is 25 km south-east of the CBD.
• RRS William Scoresby, an early-twentieth-century research vessel in the employ of the British scientific organisation, Discovery Investigations.
• Scoresby Land in Greenland
• Cape Scoresby (66°34′S 162°45′E / 66.567°S 162.75°E / -66.567; 162.75), bluff marking the north end of Borradaile Island.