The headland forming the southeast side of the entrance to Stromness Bay is named Busen Point.

Its historical significance is that it represents the destination of Ernest Shackleton's epic rescue journey in 1916.

[citation needed] During the Second World War the whaling stations were closed except Grytviken and Leith Harbour.

Most of the British and Norwegian whaling factories and catchers were destroyed by German raiders, while the rest were called up to serve under Allied command.

The Royal Navy armed the merchant vessel Queen of Bermuda to patrol South Georgian and Antarctic waters, and deployed two four-inch guns at key locations protecting the approaches to Cumberland Bay and Stromness Bay, i.e. to Grytviken and Leith Harbour respectively.

[citation needed] The three whaling stations, Husvik, Stromness and Leith Harbour were linked by a rough track along the beach.

During the whaling era, whalers from Stromness and Husvik would use it to get to Leith Harbour to use the island's one cinema.

The name dates back to about 1912, and was probably given by Norwegian whalers who frequented the harbor and established a whaling station at its head.

The descriptive name Rocky Point was given for this feature, probably by DI personnel who surveyed Husvik Harbor in 1928.

The name appears on a chart showing the results of surveys by DI personnel in 1927 and 1929, and is probably for Leganger Hansen, manager of the whaling station at Leith Harbor at that time.

The point was known at a much earlier date, but the name was first used on the charts based upon the 1927-29 survey by DI personnel.

Named for the Busen, a Norwegian whaling transport vessel which was often stationed at the head of Husvik Harbor in Stromness Bay.

Charted by DI personnel in 1928 and so named by them, presumably because their presence obstructs or impedes vessels approaching the head of the harbor.

Following the survey by SGS, 1951-52, the feature was renamed Bucentaur Rock after the floating factory Bucentaur, which was anchored at Husvik in the early years of the whaling station after 1907, and from which the Husvik transport Busen and the catchers Busen I, II, III, etc., derive their names.