Plan a trip to South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands

Places to see in South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands

12 of the 19 places VoyaKin maps here. Descriptions from Wikipedia and photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.

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  South Georgia

  Island · South Georgia

  South Georgia is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around 1,400 kilometres east of the Falkland Islands.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: European Space Agency (CC BY-SA 3.0 igo). Map

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  Zavodovski Island

  Island · South Sandwich Islands

  Zavodovski Island is an uninhabited volcanic island in the Traversay Islands subgroup of the South Sandwich Islands, which are located southeast of South Georgia in the South Atlantic Ocean.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (Public domain). Map

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  Thule Island

  Island · South Sandwich Islands

  Thule Island, also called Morrell Island, is one of the southernmost of the South Sandwich Islands, part of the grouping known as Southern Thule. It is named, on account of its remote location, after the mythical land of Thule, said by ancient geographers to lie at the extreme end of the Earth.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: NASA ASTER volcano archive jpl (Public domain). Map

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  Mount Paget

  Mountain · South Georgia

  Mount Paget is a summit of Allardyce Range on the South Atlantic/Antarctic island of South Georgia. At 9,629 feet (2,935 m) above the sea level, it is the highest peak on the island, and the highest peak in any territory under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Butterfly austral (CC BY-SA 3.0). Map

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  Bird Island

  Island · South Georgia

  Bird Island is 4.8 kilometres (3 mi) long and 800 metres (875 yd) wide, separated from the western end of South Georgia by Bird Sound. It is part of the British overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, also claimed by Argentina as part of Tierra del Fuego province.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Claudia Mischler (Public domain). Map

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  South Georgia Museum

  Museum · South Georgia

  The South Georgia Museum is situated in Grytviken, near the administrative centre of the UK overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Polar explorers Ernest Shackleton and Frank Wild are buried in Grytviken's graveyard. The museum was established in 1991 by Nigel Bonner.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Liam Quinn from Canada (CC BY-SA 2.0). Map

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  Norwegian Anglican Church

  Norwegian Lutheran Church

  Religious · South Georgia

  The Norwegian Anglican Church, sometimes known as the Whalers Church, and as the Norwegian Lutheran Church, and casually as the Grytviken Church, is a church in Grytviken, South Georgia, built in 1913. The church was part of the Church of Norway for a century, from 1913 to 2013.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: nomis-simon (CC BY 2.0). Map

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  Mount Michael

  Mountain · South Sandwich Islands

  Mount Michael is an active stratovolcano on Saunders Island in the remote South Sandwich Islands of the South Atlantic Ocean. It is one of only a few volcanoes on Earth confirmed to host a persistent lava lake within its summit crater.

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  Mount Belinda

  Mountain · South Sandwich Islands

  Mount Belinda is a stratovolcano on Montagu Island, in the South Sandwich Islands of the Scotia Sea. At 1,370 m (4,490 ft), Mount Belinda is the highest peak in the South Sandwich Islands, a part of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Wikimedia Commons: MtBelinda ASTER 20050923.jpg (Public domain). Map

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  King Haakon Bay

  Beach · South Georgia

  King Haakon Bay, or King Haakon Sound, is an inlet on the southern coast of the island of South Georgia. The inlet is approximately 13 km long and 4 km wide. The inlet was named for King Haakon VII of Norway by Carl Anton Larsen, founder of Grytviken. Queen Maud Bay, named for his queen, is nearby.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Antarctic96 (CC BY-SA 3.0). Map

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  Fortuna Glacier

  Landmark · South Georgia

  Fortuna Glacier is a tidewater glacier at the mouth of Cumberland Bay on the island of South Georgia. It flows in a northeast direction to its terminus just west of Cape Best, with an eastern distributary almost reaching the west side of Fortuna Bay, on the north coast of South Georgia.

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  Mount Carse

  Mountain · South Georgia

  Mount Carse is a mountain having several peaks, the highest at 2,330 metres (7,640 ft), standing 2 nautical miles (4 km) north of the head of Drygalski Fjord in the southern part of the Salvesen Range of South Georgia.

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