{"id":1266,"date":"2016-01-31T22:57:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T22:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/ocean-harbour-refurbishment-2016\/"},"modified":"2016-01-31T22:57:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T22:57:30","slug":"ocean-harbour-refurbishment-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/ocean-harbour-refurbishment-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Harbour Refurbishment 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2016 a team from the South Georgia Government station at King Edward Point visited the ocean Harbour cemetery and installed six new crosses to replace the old ones that had fallen apart over the preceding decades. Only one cross, marking the grave of Carl Edvardsen, was still intact and in good condition, though leaning over. It was not replaced but just set upright again.<\/p>\n<p>The remains of six other crosses, most of them broken-off stumps, were replaced by replicas that had been made according to measurements gleaned from old photographs and recent visits to the stumps. They were built by the South Georgia Government building team at King Edward Point two years ago, and stored in the single old whaling station building at Ocean Harbour for a year.<\/p>\n<p>One cross each&#8230; Ray, Russ, Matt and Roger<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1260\" title=\"Ray, Russ, Matt  and Roger carry the crosses to the site\" src=\"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/owork01m.jpg\" alt=\"Four men carrying new crosses\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/owork01m.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/owork01m-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hugh and Russ plant a new cross:<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1261\" src=\"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/owork02m.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Hugh and Russ plant a new cross\" class=\"caption\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/owork02m.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/owork02m-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<p>The Final Result:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1262\" alt=\"oview03m\" src=\"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/oview03m.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/oview03m.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/oview03m-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Compared with twenty years ago:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1263\" src=\"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/oview01m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/oview01m.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/oview01m-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and looking the other way. Two years ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1264\" src=\"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/oview04m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/oview04m.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/oview04m-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1265\" src=\"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/oview05m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/oview05m.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/oview05m-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2016 a team from the South Georgia Government station at King Edward Point visited the ocean Harbour cemetery and installed six new crosses to replace the old ones that had fallen apart over the preceding decades. Only one cross, marking the grave of Carl Edvardsen, was still intact and in good condition, though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maintenance"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/owork01m.jpg",600,450,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/owork01m-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/owork01m-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/owork01m.jpg",600,450,false],"large":["https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/owork01m.jpg",600,450,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/owork01m.jpg",600,450,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/wp-content\/uploads\/cems\/owork01m.jpg",600,450,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"cems-admin","author_link":"https:\/\/wildisland.gs\/cemswp\/author\/cems-admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"In January 2016 a team from the South Georgia Government station at King Edward Point visited the ocean Harbour cemetery and installed six new crosses to replace the old ones that had fallen apart over the preceding decades. 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