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Heard Island & McDonald Islands

Sail Rock

Sail Rock is a rock lying 1 nautical mile northwest of Shag Island and 7 nautical miles north of . This rock, though positioned several miles too far westward, appears to have been first shown on an 1860 sketch map compiled by Captain H.C.
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Islet
  • Description: rock formation in Antarctica
  • Also known as: “Segel-Fels”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Drury Rock.

Islet
is a rock, about 37 metres high, lying 0.3 nautical miles south-southeast of Shag Island and 6 nautical miles north of . This rock, though positioned several miles too far westward, appears to have been first shown on an 1860 sketch map compiled by Captain H.C. is situated 3 km southeast of Sail Rock.

Sail Rock

Latitude
-52.90309° or 52° 54′ 11″ south
Longitude
73.56847° or 73° 34′ 7″ east
Open location code
3JVM3HW9+Q9
Open­Street­Map ID
way 281467599
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­islet
Geo­Names ID
1547285
Wiki­data ID
Q7400146
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Satellite Map

Discover Sail Rock from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Swedish—“Sail Rock” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Sail Rock”
  • Cebuano: “Sail Rock”
  • Chinese: “塞爾岩”
  • Croatian: “Sail Rock (otok Heard)”
  • Croatian: “Sail Rock”
  • German: “Sail Rock”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sail Rock ved Heardøya”
  • Slovenian: “Sail Rock”
  • Swedish: “Sail Rock”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sail Rock”. Photo: Tristannew, CC BY-SA 4.0.