Re: Longer jumps? by Karl Laurits Olsen

There was indeed a ski jump in Leith Harbour; however, the lack of photos and coordinates prevents it from being added to the archive. There was a competition on 07.08.1938 where Magnus Storbråten and Reidar Hansen (both Norwegian) made standing 39m jumps. The same day Reidar Hansen and Arne Strand fell at 39.5m. On South Georgia, there were at least two more towns where ski jumps were built, but I don't remember their names right now.

Longer jumps?

In an article in Norwegian newspaper Telemark Arbeiderblad on 5 January 1960, Thoralf Johnsen tells about the Grytviken ski championship and the South Georgia championship of 1959. He says that the hill in Grytviken was K45 and that the longest jump in the Grytviken championship on 12 July 1959 was 42.5 m, but he doesn't mention who did that jump, and I haven't managed to find it elsewhere, either.

He also mentions that the ski jumping hill in Leith Harbour, where that year's South Georgia championship was held, was somewhat smaller than the one in Grytviken. I believe I have seen mention in other old newspapers of ski jumping hills in a couple of other places on South Georgia (but no details about them), but I'll have to do another search to find where that was.