Articles in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ( 304 )

304 Articles of interest in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

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  • East Skerry

    East Skerry (54°15′S36°18′W) is a small group of islands and rocks (skerries) forming the eastern part of the Skrap Skerries, lying 2 miles (3 km) northwest of Cape George, off the north coast of South Georgia.

  • Crescent Island

    Crescent Island (54°1′S37°19′W) is a small, roughly crescent-shaped island lying close south of Mollyhawk Island in the Bay of Isles, South Georgia. It was roughly charted in 1912–13 by Robert Cushman Murphy.

  • Clayton Glacier

    Clayton Glacier is a small glacier flowing north along Murphy Wall into Sunset Fjord, Bay of Isles, South Georgia. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Roger A.S.

  • Church Bay

    Church Bay is a bay 4.5 nautical miles (8 km) wide, indenting the north coast of South Georgia between Low Rock Point and Cape North.

  • Cape Charlotte

    Cape Charlotte (located at (54°32′S35°54′W) is a cape that forms the southeast side of the entrance to Royal Bay on the north coast near the eastern end of South Georgia in the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Webb Glacier (South Georgia)

    Webb Glacier (54°32'S 36°10'W) is a glacier, 2 miles (3.2 km) long, flowing southeast from Mount Brooker into Ross Glacier on the north side of South Georgia. Surveyed by the South Georgia Survey, 1954-55. Named for Edgar Clive Webb, member of the S…

  • Boot Rock

    Boot Rock (57°3'S 26°39'W) is a rock, 30 metres (100 ft) high, which lies 0.1 nautical miles (0.2 km) off the southeast side of Candlemas Island in the South Sandwich Islands.

  • Rocky Bay (South Georgia)

    Rocky Bay is a small bay, with numerous rocks lying in the bay and at its entrance, situated immediately north of Ducloz Head along the south coast of South Georgia. The presence of this bay seems to have been first noted in 1819 by Admiral Thaddeus…

  • Cape Wilson (South Georgia)

    Cape Wilson (54°2'S 37°10'W) is a headland at the east side of the entrance to the Bay of lsles on the north coast of South Georgia. The Bay of Isles was charted in 1912–13 by Robert Cushman Murphy, American naturalist aboard the brig Daisy.

  • Zigzag Pass

    Zigzag Pass (54°12′S36°59′W) is a pass through the west portion of Wilckens Peaks in South Georgia, leading from Kohl Plateau to the head of Esmark Glacier.

  • Zenker Ridge

    Zenker Ridge (54°18′S36°30′W) is a low moraine ridge extending northeast from Osmic Hill to Discovery Point in Cumberland East Bay, South Georgia. This moraine was charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Nordenskjold.

  • Wilson Harbour

    Wilson Harbour is a bay 1.5 miles (2.4 km) wide and 3 miles (4.8 km) long, between Kade Point and Cape Demidov along the south coast of South Georgia. This coast was roughly charted by a Russian expedition under Bellingshausen in 1819. Wilson Harbou…

  • Wilckens Peaks

    The Wilckens Peaks (54°12′S36°57′W) are a group of mountain peaks, the highest 1,375 m, in the form of an arc which extends from the north side of Keilhau Glacier to the north side of Neumayer Glacier in South Georgia. The peaks were roughly locate…

  • Wheeler Glacier

    Wheeler Glacier (54°36′S36°22′W) is a glacier draining the north flank of Mount Fraser, flowing west-northwest for 2 miles (3.2 km) to the south coast of South Georgia. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951-57. Named by the United Kingdom Antarcti…

  • West Skerry

    West Skerry (54°15′S36°20′W) is a small group of islands and rocks forming the west part of Skrap Skerries, lying 3.2 km (2 miles) east of Barff Point off the north coast of South Georgia.

  • Warburton Peak

    Warburton Peak (54°5′S37°34′W) is a peak, 1,090 m high, standing 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of the head of Wilson Harbour in the west part of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951-57, and named for Keith Warb…

  • Tyrrell Glacier

    Tyrrell Glacier (54°22′S36°31′W) is a glacier flowing north into the head of Moraine Fjord where it joins Harker Glacier, on the north coast of South Georgia.

  • Twitcher Glacier

    Twitcher Glacier (54°43′S35°56′W) is a glacier, 4 miles (6 km) long, which flows east from the Salvesen Range to the east coast of South Georgia, immediately south of Herz Glacier and Iris Bay. The glacier was surveyed in 1951-52 by the SGS.

  • Trollhul

    Trollhul is a small cove 4 nautical miles (7 km) northwest of Cape Disappointment at the mouth of Graae Glacier, along the south coast of South Georgia.

  • Trendall Crag

    Trendall Crag (54°48′S35°59′W) is a mountain crag, 1,005 m, overlooking the north side of Drygalski Fjord at the southeast end of South Georgia.

  • Three Brothers, South Georgia

    The Three Brothers (54°16′S36°48′W) is a group of three mountain peaks at the north west end of the Allardyce Range range on South Georgia. They aligned in a north-south direction, situated 4 miles (6 km) west of the head of Cumberland West Bay in …

  • Theodor Rock

    Theodor Rock is a rock approximately midway between Annenkov Island and Pickersgill Islands, off the south coast of South Georgia.

  • Tern Island, South Georgia

    Tern Island in the south part of the Bay of Isles, South Georgia (54°3′S37°20′W) is a small, tussock-covered island lying 1.6 km (1 mile) south of Albatross Island and 10 km (6 miles) east of Dot Island.

  • Teal Ponds

    Teal Ponds (54°19′S36°27′W) is a series of ponds in a tussock-covered valley 0.3 miles (0.5 km) south of Dartmouth Point, on the east side of Moraine Fjord, South Georgia.

  • Susa Point

    Susa Point (54°17′S36°30′W) is a low rocky point marking the seaward end of a small east-west ridge separating two tussock-covered flats, lying 0.25 miles (0.4 km) south of the entrance to King Edward Cove in Cumberland East Bay, South Georgia. Rou…

  • Survey Isthmus

    Survey Isthmus (54°2′S37°58′W) is a narrow isthmus about 39 m high separating Elsehul and Undine Harbor near the west end of South Georgia.