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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  • Mills Peak (South Georgia)

    Mills Peak is a peak 1 nautical mile (2 km) southwest of Cape Douglas, rising to 625 metres (2,050 ft) in the northern portion of Barff Peninsula, South Georgia. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1988 for Lieutenant Keith P.

  • Maiviken

    Maiviken is a cove at the north end of Thatcher Peninsula between Cumberland West Bay and Cumberland East Bay, South Georgia. It was charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Otto Nordenskjöld, and named "Majviken" (May Cove) after…

  • Lucifer Hill

    Lucifer Hill is a reddish, cindery, sulphur-streaked hill forming the summit of the northern section of Candlemas Island in the South Sandwich Islands.

  • Leon Head

    Leon Head (54°33′S36°29′W) is a prominent rocky headland, 880 metres (2,900 ft) high, forming the south side of the mouth of Brøgger Glacier and the southeast side of the entrance to Undine South Harbour, on the south coast of South Georgia. The he…

  • Larsen Point

    Larsen Point (54°12′S36°30′W) is a headland which forms the west side of the entrance to Cumberland Bay on the north coast of South Georgia. It was named for Captain C.A.

  • Johnson Point

    Johnson Point is a point jutting into Jacobsen Bight dividing it into two bays, on the south coast of South Georgia. The point marks the southern end of one of the best sedimentary successions on the island. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Na…

  • Jason Island

    Jason Island is an island 1 nautical mile (2 km) north of Larsen Point at the west side of the entrance to Cumberland Bay, off the north coast of South Georgia. It was named after the Jason, the vessel used by Captain C.A.

  • Jason Harbour

    Jason Harbour is a bay 1 mile (1.6 km) wide, lying west of Allen Bay in the north side of Cumberland West Bay, South Georgia. It was charted and named by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Otto Nordenskiöld. The bay was previously visi…

  • Jacobsen Bight

    Jacobsen Bight is a bight 4 miles (6.4 km) wide, indenting the south coast of South Georgia between Larvik Cone and Cape Darnley. The name "Sukkertopp bukta" (Sugarloaf Bay) was used by Olaf Holtedahl in 1929 for the whole of the coast between Cape …

  • Islet Point

    Islet Point is a headland forming the east side of the entrance to Carlita Bay, Cumberland West Bay, on the north coast of South Georgia. The name appears to be first used on a 1929 British Admiralty chart and probably derives from the islet just o…

  • Irving Point

    Irving Point (56°43′S27°7′W) is a point forming the eastern extremity of Visokoi Island in the South Sandwich Islands. It was discovered and first roughly charted in 1819 by a Russian expedition under Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. It was name…

  • Iris Bay

    Iris Bay is a small bay immediately south of Muller Point at the east end of South Georgia, lying 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Cape Vahsel, along the embayment between Cape Vahsel and Cape Charlotte. The name "Sandwich Bay", for John Montagu, 4th Ea…

  • Invisible Island

    Invisible Island (54°1′S37°19′W) is a small, tussock-covered island lying close southeast of Crescent Island and Mollyhawk Island in the Bay of Isles, South Georgia.

  • Ice Fjord

    Ice Fjord is a bay 5.5 miles (9 km) long and 2 miles (3 km) wide, entered between Weddell Point and Kade Point along the south coast and near the west end of South Georgia.

  • Hound Bay

    Hound Bay (Norwegian: Bikjebugten) is a bay, which is 2.5 miles (4 km) wide at its mouth and recedes 3 miles (5 km), entered between Tijuca Point and Cape Vakop along the north coast of South Georgia. The names "George Bay" and "Hundebugten" have ap…

  • Hindle Glacier

    Hindle Glacier (54°34′S36°5′W) is a glacier 6 miles (10 km) long, flowing north from the vicinity of Mount Paterson into Royal Bay on the north coast of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey (SGS), 1951–52. The name "Bruce Glac…

  • Hestesletten

    Hestesletten (54°18′S36°31′W) is a glacial plain between the Hamberg Lakes and Cumberland East Bay, South Georgia. It is covered with tussock and is almost 2 miles (3.2 km) long in a northeast–southwest direction and 0.75 miles (1.2 km) wide.

  • Harrison Point

    Harrison Point is a point marked by a string of off-lying rocks, lying 1.5 nautical miles (3 km) west of Busen Point on the south side of Stromness Bay, South Georgia. It was charted in 1927 by Discovery Investigations (DI) personnel and named "Matt…

  • Harpon Bay

    Harpon Bay is a bay 1 nautical mile (2 km) wide, lying just east of Mercer Bay in the south part of Cumberland West Bay, South Georgia. It was first mapped by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Otto Nordenskiöld.

  • Gull Lake, South Georgia

    Gull Lake is a lake, 0.15 nautical miles (0.3 km) in diameter, lying close to the southwest shore of King Edward Cove, 0.5 nautical miles (1 km) south of the abandoned whaling station at Grytviken, South Georgia.

  • Gulbrandsen Lake

    Gulbrandsen Lake is a lake 0.5 miles (0.8 km) long lying north of Neumayer Glacier in South Georgia. It is now an empty basin; the moraine and or ice dam formed by the Neumeyer Glacier no longer contains this lake. It was charted and named "White Ci…

  • Graae Glacier

    Graae Glacier (54°48′S36°10′W) is a glacier 2 miles (3 km) long on the north side of Mount Sabatier, flowing west-southwest to Trollhul in the south part of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey (SGS) in the period 1951–57, and…

  • Goldcrest Point

    Goldcrest Point (54°0′S38°5′W) is the northwest point of Bird Island, South Georgia. It was charted by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery in the period 1926–30 and by the South Georgia Survey, 1951–57. The point is the site of a la…

  • Fusilier Mountain

    Fusilier Mountain is a mountain rising to 810 metres (2,660 ft) on the north side of Heaney Glacier, 2.7 nautical miles (5 km) west of Mount Skittle, on the north coast of South Georgia. The field name "Dome Mountain" was used by the South Georgia S…

  • Evans Lake (South Georgia)

    Evans Lake is a comparatively deep lake of irregular shape lying east of Poa Cove, Maiviken, in the north of the Thatcher Peninsula, South Georgia. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after John C.

  • Ernesto Pass

    Ernesto Pass (54°1′S37°44′W) is a mountain pass between Morsa Bay and Right Whale Bay in the northwest part of South Georgia. The name "Don Ernesto Glacier", for the catcher Don Ernesto owned by the Compañía Argentina de Pesca, was used for a glaci…

  • Ems Rock

    Ems Rock (54°10′S36°35′W) is a rock midway between Harrison Point and Busen Point in the south part of Stromness Bay, South Georgia. It was charted by Discovery Investigations personnel under Lieutenant Commander J.M.

  • Elsehul

    Elsehul is a bay 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide, entered close west of Cape Pride along the north coast of South Georgia. It is separated from Undine Harbour by the narrow Survey Isthmus.