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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  • Elliott Rock

    Elliott Rock is a rock lying in Stewart Strait, close west of Bird Island, off the west end of South Georgia. It was positioned by Discovery Investigations personnel under Lieutenant Commander J.M. Chaplin in the period 1926–30, and was named in 195…

  • Echo Pass

    Echo Pass (54°17′S36°33′W) is a pass, 305 metres (1,000 ft) in elevation, lying 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of Grytviken, South Georgia, in the chain of mountains which extends southwest from Mount Hodges. The pass provides a ski route from the st…

  • Ducloz Head

    Ducloz Head (54°31′S36°39′W) is a headland which forms the northwest side of the entrance to Undine South Harbour on the south coast of South Georgia. It was first charted in 1819 by a Russian expedition under Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.

  • Doubtful Bay

    Doubtful Bay is a small, deeply indented bay, which lies 1 mile (1.6 km) east-northeast of Smaaland Cove and immediately west of Rumbolds Point on the southeast coast of South Georgia. It was charted by the Second German Antarctic Expedition under W…

  • Discovery Point

    Discovery Point (54°18′S36°29′W) is a point formed of glacial moraine, marking the west side of the entrance to Moraine Fjord, South Georgia.

  • Dartmouth Point

    Dartmouth Point is the point that marks the north end of Greene Peninsula, the rugged promontory separating Moraine Fjord and the east head of Cumberland East Bay, South Georgia.

  • Cumberland West Bay

    Cumberland West Bay is a bay forming the western arm of Cumberland Bay, South Georgia. It is entered southward of Larsen Point, where it is 2.5 miles (4 km) wide, and extends 7 miles (11 km) in a southwest direction. This feature was surveyed by the…

  • Christensen Glacier (South Georgia)

    Christensen Glacier is a glacier 4 nautical miles (7 km) long, flowing south into the eastern part of Newark Bay on the south coast of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named by the UK Antarctic Pl…

  • Cheapman Bay

    Cheapman Bay is a bay 4 miles (6.4 km) wide, indenting the south coast of South Georgia close west of King Haakon Bay. The name Cheapman Strand was given to a feature in this vicinity by an American sealing expedition which visited South Georgia in …

  • Carlita Bay

    Carlita Bay is a small bay in the west side of Cumberland West Bay, South Georgia, just west of Islet Point. The feature was earlier named Horseshoe Bay, probably during the survey of Cumberland West Bay by HMS Dartmouth in 1920, but this name was l…

  • Cape Vakop

    Cape Vakop (54°22′S36°10′W) is a headland between Hound Bay and Luisa Bay on the north coast of South Georgia. It was charted by the Second German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–12, under Wilhelm Filchner.

  • Cape Rosa

    Cape Rosa (54°11′S37°25′W) is a cape marking the south side of the entrance to King Haakon Bay on the south coast of South Georgia.

  • Cape Pride

    Cape Pride (54°0′S37°58′W) is a cape which forms the east side of the entrance to Elsehul, a small bay along the north coast and near the west end of South Georgia.

  • Cape Paryadin

    Cape Paryadin (54°4′S38°0′W) is a headland which forms the southernmost point of the west tip of South Georgia. It was discovered in 1775 by a British expedition under James Cook. The cape was resighted in 1819 by a Russian expedition under Belling…

  • Cape Nuñez

    Cape Nuñez (54°16′S37°25′W) is a headland forming the southwest extremity of Nuñez Peninsula on the south coast of South Georgia.

  • Cape Harcourt

    Cape Harcourt (54°29′S35°58′W) is a headland on the eastern extremity of Harcourt Island on the north coast of South Georgia, forming the north side of the entrance to Royal Bay.

  • Cape Buller

    Cape Buller (53°59′S37°22′W) is a rugged headland forming the west side of the entrance to the Bay of Isles on the north coast of South Georgia.

  • Bucentaur Rock

    Bucentaur Rock (54°9′S36°33′W) is the outermost of three rocks lying close northeast of Busen Point, at the southeast side of the entrance to Stromness Bay, South Georgia. The name Low Rock was given for this feature during a survey in 1927, but th…

  • Brøgger Glacier

    Brøgger Glacier (54°32′S36°26′W) is a glacier 7 nautical miles (13 km) long, flowing west into the southern part of Undine South Harbour on the south coast of South Georgia.

  • Briggs Glacier

    Briggs Glacier (54°10′S37°8′W) is a glacier between Mount Worsley and The Trident in central South Georgia, flowing northwest into Murray Snowfield. It was charted as a glacier flowing into the head of Possession Bay in 1929 by Lieutenant Commander…

  • Breakbones Plateau

    Breakbones Plateau is a small lava plateau just north of Chimaera Flats on Candlemas Island, South Sandwich Islands. The feature is an interesting biological area containing numerous small fumaroles with attendant vegetation.

  • Bogen Glacier

    Bogen Glacier (54°48′S35°56′W) is a small glacier on the north side of Drygalski Fjord between Trendall Crag and Hamilton Bay, at the southeast end of South Georgia.

  • Blackstone Plain

    Blackstone Plain is a small plain just south of Harper Point at the north end of Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands. This lowland feature is made up of dark basaltic lavas and, in 1964, personnel from HMS Protector found it to be the only area …

  • Binary Peaks

    Binary Peaks is a steep pinnacle covered with snow with two snow free and therefore conspicuous summits, situated 1.5 nautical miles (3 km) northwest of Mount Krokisius and 2 nautical miles (4 km) north-northwest of Moltke Harbor, South Georgia. Thi…

  • Barff Point

    Barff Point (54°14′S36°24′W) is a headland which forms the east side of the entrance to Cumberland Bay, on the north coast of South Georgia. It was named for Lieutenant A.D. Barff, Royal Navy, of the Sappho, who, assisted by Captain C.A.

  • Barff Peninsula

    Barff Peninsula (54°19′S36°18′W) is a peninsula forming the east margin of Cumberland East Bay, South Georgia, extending northwest from Sörling Valley 8 miles (13 km) to Barff Point.

  • Austin Head

    Austin Head (54°31′S36°30′W) is a headland 2 miles (3 km) north-northwest of Leon Head, projecting into Undine South Harbour on the south coast of South Georgia.