Tern Island
Tern Island in the south part of the Bay of Isles, South Georgia is a small, tussock-covered island lying 1.6 km south of Albatross Island and 10 km east of Dot Island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Islet
- Description: island in the south part of the Bay of Isles, South Georgia
- Also known as: “Tern Islet”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dot Island and Albatross Island.
Dot Island
Islet
Dot Island in the sub-Antarctic is a tiny island lying 0.6 nautical miles west of Tern Island in the south part of the Bay of Isles, South Georgia. It was first charted by Robert Cushman Murphy in 1912–13 and surveyed in 1929–30 by Discovery Investigations personnel, who probably so named it because of its size and minute appearance when represented on charts.
Albatross Island
Island
Albatross Island is an small islet located 2 miles southeast of Cape Buller in the Bay of Isles. It is part of South Georgia, a British Overseas Territory to the east of Falkland Islands.
Invisible Island
Islet
Invisible Island is a small, tussock-covered island lying close southeast of Crescent Island and Mollyhawk Island in the Bay of Isles, South Georgia. It was charted in 1912–13 by Robert Cushman Murphy, an American naturalist aboard the brig Daisy, and was probably named by Discovery Investigations personnel who surveyed the Bay of Isles in 1929–30. Invisible Island is situated 3 km north of Tern Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Salisbury Plain.
Salisbury Plain
Locality
Photo: Pismire, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Salisbury Plain is a broad coastal plain found with the Bay of Isles on the north coast of South Georgia. It lies between the mouths of Grace and Lucas glaciers on the southern coast of the bay, with Mount Ashley south of it. Salisbury Plain is situated 2½ km south of Tern Island.
Tern Island
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-54.04637° or 54° 2′ 47″ southLongitude
-37.33083° or 37° 19′ 51″ westElevation
1 metre (3 feet)Open location code
39Q4XM39+FMOpenStreetMap ID
way 609555645OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=isletGeoNames ID
3426259Wikidata ID
Q7702914
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Tern Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Tern Island (pulo sa South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)”
- Cebuano: “Tern Island”
- Chinese: “特恩島”
- German: “Tern Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tern Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tern Island i Sør-Georgia”
- Norwegian: “Tern Island”
- Spanish: “Isla Tern”
- Swedish: “Tern Island”
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Highlights include The Twins and Invisible Island.
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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 “Tern Island”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.