Dot Island
Dot Island in the sub-Antarctic is a tiny island lying 0.6 nautical miles west of Tern Island in the south part of the Bay of Isles, South Georgia. It was first charted by Robert Cushman Murphy in 1912–13 and surveyed in 1929–30 by Discovery Investigations personnel, who probably so named it because of its size and minute appearance when represented on charts.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Islet
- Description: island in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Dot Islet”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tern Island and Albatross Island.
Tern Island
Islet
Tern Island in the south part of the Bay of Isles, South Georgia is a small, tussock-covered island lying 1.6 km south of Albatross Island and 10 km east of Dot Island.
Albatross Island
Island
Albatross Island is an small islet located 2 miles southeast of Cape Buller in the Bay of Isles. It is part of South Georgia, a British Overseas Territory to the east of Falkland Islands. Albatross Island is situated 2½ km north of Dot Island.
Invisible Island
Islet
Invisible Island is a small, tussock-covered island lying close southeast of Crescent Island and Mollyhawk Island in the Bay of Isles, South Georgia. It was charted in 1912–13 by Robert Cushman Murphy, an American naturalist aboard the brig Daisy, and was probably named by Discovery Investigations personnel who surveyed the Bay of Isles in 1929–30. Invisible Island is situated 4 km northeast of Dot Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Salisbury Plain.
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. Salisbury Plain is situated 2½ km south of Dot Island.
Dot Island
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-54.04791° or 54° 2′ 53″ southLongitude
-37.34931° or 37° 20′ 58″ westElevation
26 metres (85 feet)Open location code
39Q4XM22+R7OpenStreetMap ID
way 662936927OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=isletGeoNames ID
3426509Wikidata ID
Q5299392
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Dot Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة دوت”
- Cebuano: “Dot Island”
- Chinese: “多特島”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة دوت”
- German: “Dot Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dot Island”
- Spanish: “Isla Dot”
- Swedish: “Dot Island”
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Highlights include Alert Rock and Invisible Island.
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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 “Dot Island”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.