Islands
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands

Cook Rock

Cook Rock is an arched rock, 45 metres high, lying close east of and 0.3 nautical miles northeast of in the South Sandwich Islands.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Trousers Rock and Vindication Island.

Islet
is a rock with a prominent wave-cut arch, lying immediately west of Cook Rock and 0.3 nautical miles northeast of in the South Sandwich Islands.

Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
is a small uninhabited island of the in the South Sandwich Islands. It is one of about a dozen islands that make up the South Sandwich island arc, a chain of volcanoes in the Southern Ocean that was discovered in 1775 by James Cook.

Peak
is a peak forming the summit of , South Sandwich Islands. The peak forms a narrow ridge above the uniform slopes of the original volcanic cone, and is a quadrant of what was probably once a circular mass cone.

Cook Rock

Latitude
-57.11129° or 57° 6′ 41″ south
Longitude
-26.78991° or 26° 47′ 24″ west
Open location code
39JMV6Q6+F2
Open­Street­Map ID
way 975323447
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­islet
Geo­Names ID
3426536
Wiki­data ID
Q5167001
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Satellite Map

Discover Cook Rock from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Swedish—“Cook Rock” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Roca Cook”
  • Cebuano: “Cook Rock (bato sa South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)”
  • Cebuano: “Cook Rock”
  • Chinese: “庫克岩”
  • German: “Cook Rock”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cook Rock”
  • Spanish: “Roca Cook”
  • Swedish: “Cook Rock (klippa i Sydgeorgien och Sydsandwichöarna)”
  • Swedish: “Cook Rock”

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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 “Cook Rock”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.