Store Kari Rock
Store Kari Rock is an insular rock 3 m high off the northern side of Bouvetøya. It lies 0.8 nautical miles east of Cape Valdivia. Charted from the ship Norvegia in December 1927 by a Norwegian expedition under Captain Harald Horntvedt.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Rock
- Description: rock formation
- Also known as: “Gross Kari” and “Store Kari”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Olavtoppen and Lille Kari Rock.
Olavtoppen
Peak
Olavtoppen, occasionally anglicised as Olav Peak, is the highest point of Bouvet Island, a volcanic island and dependency of Norway, and the remotest island on Earth. Olavtoppen is situated 3 km southwest of Store Kari Rock.
Lille Kari Rock
Islet
Lille Kari Rock is an insular rock 2 metres high which lies 1.2 nautical miles northwest of Cape Lollo on the island of Bouvetøya in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Posadowsky Glacier
Glacier
Following is a list of glaciers of Bouvet Island in Antarctica. This list may not reflect recently named glaciers in Bouvet Island. Posadowsky Glacier is situated 4 km southwest of Store Kari Rock.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cape Valdivia and Cape Circoncision.
Cape Valdivia
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cape Valdivia is the northernmost point on Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. The subantarctic Bouvet Island is administered by Norway. Cape Valdivia lies in the centre of the island's highest point.
Cape Circoncision
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Cape Circoncision is a peninsula on the north-western edge of subantarctic Bouvet Island. The small peninsula was sighted by the French naval exploration that was led by Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier on 1 January 1739, the Feast of the Circumcision day—thus the name. Cape Circoncision is situated 5 km west of Store Kari Rock.
Store Kari Rock
- Categories: rock formation and landform
- Location: Bouvet Island
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Turkish—“Store Kari Rock” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Store Kari Rock”
- Bavarian: “Store Kari”
- Cebuano: “Store Kari Rock”
- Cebuano: “Store Kari”
- Chinese: “斯托雷卡里岩”
- French: “Store Kari Rock”
- French: “Store Kari”
- German: “Store Kari Rock”
- German: “Store Kari”
- German: “Store-Kari”
- Japanese: “大カリ岩”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Store Kari Rock”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Store-Kari”
- Swedish: “Store Kari Rock”
- Swedish: “Store Kari”
- Swedish: “Store-Kari”
- Turkish: “Store Kari”
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