Saw Rock
Saw Rock is a rock, 25 m high, lying 0.4 nautical miles north of Crosscut Point, the north extremity of Vindication Island, in the South Sandwich Islands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vindication Island and Quadrant Peak.
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
Islet
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. Trousers Rock is situated 2½ km southeast of Saw Rock.
Saw Rock
- Type: Islet
- Description: rock formation in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, United Kingdom
- Categories: rock formation, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-57.10052° or 57° 6′ 2″ southLongitude
-26.82838° or 26° 49′ 42″ westOpen location code
39JMV5XC+QMOpenStreetMap ID
way 975113827OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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Satellite Map
Discover Saw Rock from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Saw Rock” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Saw Rock”
- Chinese: “索岩”
- German: “Saw Rock”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saw Rock”
- Spanish: “Roca Sierra”
- Swedish: “Saw 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 “Saw Rock”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.