Wilson Rock

Bristol Island is an uninhabited island in the South Sandwich Islands, an archipelago in the Southern Ocean. The island is almost entirely surrounded by ice cliffs and largely covered with ice.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Grindle Rock and Freezland Rock.

Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Bristol Island is an uninhabited island in the South Sandwich Islands, an archipelago in the Southern Ocean. The island is almost entirely surrounded by ice cliffs and largely covered with ice.

Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Bristol Island is an uninhabited island in the South Sandwich Islands, an archipelago in the Southern Ocean. The island is almost entirely surrounded by ice cliffs and largely covered with ice.

Wilson Rock

Latitude
-59.0196° or 59° 1′ 11″ south
Longitude
-26.68692° or 26° 41′ 13″ west
Open location code
39GMX8J7+56
Open­Street­Map ID
way 418455305
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Geo­Names ID
3426228
Wiki­data ID
Q8023191
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Wilson Rock” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: Wilson Rock (bato sa South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
  • Cebuano: Wilson Rock
  • Chinese: 威爾遜岩
  • German: Wilson Rock (Südliche Sandwichinseln)
  • German: Wilson Rock
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Wilson Rock
  • Spanish: Roca Wilson
  • Swedish: Wilson Rock

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