Fortuna Glacier
Fortuna Glacier is a tidewater glacier at the mouth of Cumberland Bay on the island of South Georgia. It flows in a northeast direction to its terminus just west of Cape Best, with an eastern distributary almost reaching the west side of Fortuna Bay, on the north coast of South Georgia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Best Peak and Mount Woodward.
Best Peak
Peak
Best Peak is a peak, 600 metres high, standing southwest of Illusion Point, Fortuna Bay, on the north coast of South Georgia. The name appears to be first used on a 1931 British Admiralty chart.
Mount Woodward
Peak
Mount Woodward is a mountain, 770 m, standing 1.5 miles east of the mouth of Antarctic Bay on the north coast of South Georgia. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951–57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Roswall Woodward, of New Haven, Connecticut, who in 1790 commanded one of the first two American sealing vessels to visit South Georgia. Mount Woodward is situated 3 km west of Fortuna Glacier.
Fortuna Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 176 metres
- Description: glacier on South Georgia island
- Category: landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Satellite Map
Discover Fortuna Glacier from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Fortuna Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Fortuna Glacier”
- Chinese: “福圖納冰川”
- French: “glacier Fortuna”
- French: “Glacier Fortuna”
- German: “Fortuna-Gletscher”
- Italian: “Ghiacciaio Fortuna”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fortunabreen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fortunabreen”
- Norwegian: “Fortunabreen”
- Spanish: “Glaciar Fortuna”
- Swedish: “Fortuna Glacier”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Illusion Point and Peruque Point.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include The Guides and Fortuna Bay.
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