Trousers Rock
Trousers Rock is a rock with a prominent wave-cut arch, lying immediately west of Cook Rock and 0.3 nautical miles northeast of Vindication Island in the South Sandwich Islands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Islet
- Description: rock formation in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Roca Pantaló”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cook Rock and Vindication Island.
Cook Rock
Islet
Cook Rock is an arched rock, 45 metres high, lying close east of Trousers Rock and 0.3 nautical miles northeast of Vindication Island in the South Sandwich Islands.
Vindication Island
Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Vindication Island is a small uninhabited island of the Candlemas Islands in the South Sandwich Islands. It is one of about a dozen islands that make up the South Sandwich island arc, a chain of volcanoes in the Southern Ocean that was discovered in 1775 by James Cook.
Quadrant Peak
Peak
Quadrant Peak is a peak forming the summit of Vindication Island, South Sandwich Islands. The peak forms a narrow ridge above the uniform slopes of the original volcanic cone, and is a quadrant of what was probably once a circular mass cone.
Trousers Rock
- Categories: rock formation, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-57.11162° or 57° 6′ 42″ southLongitude
-26.79237° or 26° 47′ 33″ westOpen location code
39JMV6Q5+93OpenStreetMap ID
way 975323443OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Trousers Rock” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Trousers Rock”
- Chinese: “特勞瑟斯岩”
- German: “Trousers Rock”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Trousers Rock”
- Spanish: “Roca Pantalon”
- Spanish: “Roca Pantalón”
- Swedish: “Trousers 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 “Trousers Rock”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.