Grace Glacier
The Bay of Isles is a bay 9 miles wide and 3 miles deep, lying between Cape Buller and Cape Wilson along the north coast of South Georgia. It was discovered in 1775 by a British expedition under James Cook and so named by him because numerous islands lie in the bay.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Ashley and Clayton Glacier.
Mount Ashley
Peak
Mount Ashley is a mountain, 1,155 metres high, standing south of the Bay of Isles, South Georgia, between the heads of Grace Glacier and Lucas Glacier. Salisbury Plain is nearby.
Clayton Glacier
Glacier
The Bay of Isles is a bay 9 miles wide and 3 miles deep, lying between Cape Buller and Cape Wilson along the north coast of South Georgia. It was discovered in 1775 by a British expedition under James Cook and so named by him because numerous islands lie in the bay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Salisbury Plain and Peggotty Bluff.
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.
Peggotty Bluff
Locality
King Haakon Bay, or King Haakon Sound, is an inlet on the southern coast of the island of South Georgia. The inlet is approximately 13 km long and 4 km wide. Peggotty Bluff is situated 9 km southeast of Grace Glacier.
Grace Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 27 metres
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-54.09205° or 54° 5′ 31″ southLongitude
-37.38573° or 37° 23′ 9″ westElevation
27 metres (89 feet)Open location code
39Q4WJ57+5POpenStreetMap ID
way 331546998OpenStreetMap feature
natural=glacier
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Grace Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Grace Glacier”
- Chinese: “格魯斯冰川”
- German: “Grace-Gletscher”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gracebreen”
- Portuguese: “Geleira Grace”
- Spanish: “Glaciar Grace”
- Swedish: “Grace Glacier”
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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 “Grace Glacier”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.