Three Brothers

The Three Brothers is a group of three mountain peaks at the northwest end of the on South Georgia. They align in a north–south direction, situated 4 miles west of the head of in the central part of South Georgia.
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,040 metres
  • Description: mountain in South Georgia
  • Also known as: Drei Brüder”, “Montes Tres Hermanos”, “Picos Los Tres Hermanos”, “The Three Brothers”, and “Three Brothers, South Georgia

Places of Interest

Highlights include Copestake Peak and Sørlle Buttress.

Peak
is a peak rising to 655 metres on the south side of , South Georgia. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Paul Goodall-Copestake, who was British Antarctic Survey biological assistant at , 1980–82, and Station Commander at , 1982–83.

Peak
is a mountain rising above 1,370 metres, between and Three Brothers in the of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951-57 and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Petter Sørlle, a Norwegian whaling captain and inventor who, in 1922, took out a patent for his whaling slipway.

Three Brothers

Latitude
-54.26665° or 54° 16′ south
Longitude
-36.79339° or 36° 47′ 36″ west
Elevation
2,040 metres (6,693 feet)
Open location code
39Q5P6M4+8J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9252482603
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
3426257
Wiki­data ID
Q11647975
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Three Brothers” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: Three Brothers (tumoy sa bukid)
  • Cebuano: Three Brothers
  • Dutch: Three Brothers
  • German: Three Brothers
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Three Brothers på Sør-Georgia
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Three Brothers
  • Spanish: Pico Los Tres Hermanos
  • Swedish: Three Brothers (bergstopp)
  • Swedish: Three Brothers

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