Islands
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands

Saunders Island

Saunders Island is a crescent-shaped island lying between and in the , a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
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Photo: NASA, Public domain.
  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in the South Atlantic Ocean
  • Also known as: “Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Michael and Ashen Hills.

Volcano
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
is an active stratovolcano on Saunders Island in the remote South Sandwich Islands of the South Atlantic Ocean. It is one of only a few volcanoes on Earth confirmed to host a persistent lava lake within its summit crater.

Volcano
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
The are a ridge of rounded hills of gullied ash terminating in at the southeast end of Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands.

is a small plain just south of at the north end of Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands. This lowland feature is made up of dark basaltic lavas and, in 1964, personnel from HMS Protector found it to be the only area of the island free from ice and snow.

Saunders Island

Latitude
-57.79647° or 57° 47′ 47″ south
Longitude
-26.46284° or 26° 27′ 46″ west
Elevation
395 metres (1,296 feet)
Open location code
39JM6G3P+CV
Open­Street­Map ID
way 229914370
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
3426298
Wiki­data ID
Q1754102
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Satellite Map

Discover Saunders Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Saunders Island” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Saunders Irla (Hegoaldeko Sandwichak)”
  • Basque: “Saunders Irla”
  • Breton: “Enez Saunders”
  • Catalan: “Illa Saunders”
  • Cebuano: “Saunders Island”
  • Chinese: “桑德斯岛”
  • Chinese: “桑德斯島”
  • Dutch: “Saunderseiland”
  • French: “Ile Saunders”
  • French: “île Saunders”
  • French: “Île Saunders”
  • German: “Saunders Island”
  • Italian: “isola di Saunders”
  • Italian: “Isola di Saunders”
  • Japanese: “サンダース島”
  • Japanese: “ソーンダース島”
  • Latvian: “Sondersa sala”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Saunders Island”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saunders Island i Sør-Sandwichøyane”
  • Norwegian: “Saunders Island”
  • Norwegian: “Saundersøya”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Saundersīeg, Sūþsandwīc Īegland”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Saundersīeg”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Saunders”
  • Russian: “остров Сандерс”
  • Russian: “Остров Сандерса”
  • Russian: “Сондерс”
  • Spanish: “Isla Saunders”
  • Spanish: “Saunders”
  • Swedish: “Saunders Island”

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Highlights include Old crater and Brothers Rocks.

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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 “Saunders Island”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.