King Edward Point
Grytviken is a former whaling station on South Georgia Island. It was founded in 1904 as it had the best harbour on this storm-wracked island, with flat ice-free terrain and a fresh water supply.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Liam Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Liam Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 22 residents
- Description: capital of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Also known as: “Edwards Point”, “KEP”, and “King Edwards Point”
Photo: Liam Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include South Georgia Museum and Norwegian Anglican Church.
South Georgia Museum
Museum
Photo: Wofratz, Public domain.
The South Georgia Museum is situated in Grytviken, near the administrative centre of the UK overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
Norwegian Anglican Church
Church
Photo: nomis-simon, CC BY 2.0.
The Norwegian Anglican Church, sometimes known as the Whalers Church, and as the Norwegian Lutheran Church, and casually as the Grytviken Church, is a church in Grytviken, South Georgia, built in 1913.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grytviken and Discovery Point.
Grytviken
Photo: Jens Bludau, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grytviken is a former whaling station on South Georgia Island. It was founded in 1904 as it had the best harbour on this storm-wracked island, with flat ice-free terrain and a fresh water supply.
Discovery Point
Locality
Moraine Fjord is an inlet 3.5 nautical miles long with a reef extending across its entrance, forming the west head of Cumberland East Bay, South Georgia. Discovery Point is situated 2½ km south of King Edward Point.
King Edward Point
- Categories: research station, human settlement, and locality
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-54.28355° or 54° 17′ 1″ southLongitude
-36.49464° or 36° 29′ 41″ westPopulation
22Open location code
39Q5PG84+H4OpenStreetMap ID
node 6764600494OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“King Edward Point” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “King Edward Point”
- Arabic: “نقطة الملك إدوارد”
- Asturian: “Base King Edward Point”
- Catalan: “King Edward Point”
- Cebuano: “King Edward Point”
- Central Kurdish: “ترۆپکی شا ئێدوارد”
- Chinese: “King Edward Point”
- Chinese: “愛德華七世角”
- Chinese: “愛德華國王角”
- Chinese: “爱德华七世角”
- Chinese: “爱德华国王角”
- Church Slavic: “Мꙑсъ Кралꙗ Єдоуарда”
- Czech: “King Edward Point”
- Dutch: “KEP”
- Dutch: “King Edward Point”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نقطة الملك ادوارد”
- Esperanto: “King Edward Point”
- Esperanto: “Reĝo-Eduardo-Punkto”
- Finnish: “King Edward Point”
- French: “King Edward Point”
- Galician: “King Edward Point”
- Georgian: “კინგ-ედუარდ-პოინტი”
- German: “King Edward Point”
- German: “King-Edward-Point”
- Greek: “Κινγκ Έντουαρντ Πόιντ”
- Greek: “Κίνγκ Έντουαρντ Πόιντ”
- Hebrew: “קינג אדוארד פוינט”
- Indonesian: “King Edward Point”
- Irish: “King Edward Point”
- Italian: “King Edward Point”
- Japanese: “キング・エドワード・ポイント”
- Japanese: “キング・エドワード岬”
- Ladino: “King Edward Point”
- Latvian: “Kingedvardpointa”
- Lithuanian: “King Edvard Pointas”
- Macedonian: “Кинг Едвард Поинт”
- Malay: “King Edward Point”
- Min Nan Chinese: “King Edward Point”
- Mingrelian: “კინგ-ედუარდ-პოინტი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “King Edward Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “King Edward Point”
- Norwegian: “King Edward Point”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ēadweard Cyning Næss”
- Persian: “کینگ ادوارد پوینت”
- Polish: “King Edward Point”
- Portuguese: “Cabo Rei Eduardo”
- Portuguese: “King Edward Point”
- Portuguese: “Ponto Rei Eduardo”
- Russian: “Кинг Эдвард Поинт”
- Russian: “Кинг Эдвард Пойнт”
- Russian: “Кинг Эдуард Поинт”
- Russian: “Кинг Эдуард Пойнт”
- Russian: “Кинг-Эдуард-Пойнт”
- Serbian: “Кинг Едвард Поинт”
- Serbian: “Кинг Едвард Појнт”
- Serbo-Croatian: “King Edward Point”
- Sinhala: “කිං එඩ්වඩ් පොයින්ට්”
- Slovak: “King Edward Point”
- Spanish: “King Edward Point”
- Spanish: “Punta Coronel Zelaya”
- Spanish: “Punto Coronel Zelaya”
- Swedish: “King Edward Point”
- Tamil: “கிங் எட்வர்டு பாய்ன்ட்”
- Thai: “คิงเอดเวิร์ดพ็อยนต์”
- Thai: “คิงเอ็ดเวิร์ดพ็อยนต์”
- Turkish: “King Edward Point”
- Ukrainian: “Кінг-Едвард-Пойнт”
- Urdu: “کنگ ایڈورڈ پوائنٹ”
- Yue Chinese: “愛德華國王角”
- “King Edward Point”
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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 Wikivoyage page “King Edward Point”. Photo: Liam Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.