Islands
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands

Cook Island

Cook Island is the central and largest island of the island group, part of the in the far south Atlantic Ocean. Southern Thule was discovered by a British expedition under Captain James Cook in 1775.
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Photo: NASA, Public domain.
  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in South Sandwich Islands
  • Also known as: “Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Harmer and Mount Holdgate.

Peak
is an ice-covered peak, 1,115 metres high, in the north-central portion of Cook Island, in the South Sandwich Islands. It was charted in 1930 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II, who named it for Sir Sidney F.

Peak
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
is a prominent mountain, 960 metres high, with steep icefalls and rock buttresses which provides a clear landmark at the southeast end of Cook Island in the South Sandwich Islands.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Corbeta Uruguay base.

Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
was an Argentine military outpost established in November 1976 on , , in the South Sandwich Islands. It was vacated and mostly demolished in 1982 following Britain's victory against Argentina in the Falklands War.

Cook Island

Latitude
-59.44137° or 59° 26′ 29″ south
Longitude
-27.18913° or 27° 11′ 21″ west
Elevation
271 metres (889 feet)
Open location code
39GJHR56+F8
Open­Street­Map ID
way 25291869
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
3426537
Wiki­data ID
Q1129566
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Satellite Map

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

From Breton to Urdu—“Cook Island” goes by many names.
  • Breton: “Enez Cook”
  • Cebuano: “Cook Island”
  • Chinese: “庫克島 (南桑威奇群島)”
  • Chinese: “庫克島”
  • Dutch: “Cook Island”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوك ايسلاند”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوك”
  • French: “Ile Cook (Iles Sandwich du Sud)”
  • French: “île Cook (îles Sandwich du Sud)”
  • French: “Île cook (îles sandwich du sud)”
  • French: “île Cook”
  • French: “Île Cook”
  • German: “Cook Island”
  • Italian: “Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands”
  • Italian: “isola Cook”
  • Italian: “Isola Cook”
  • Italian: “Isola di Cook (Sandwich meridionali)”
  • Japanese: “クック島”
  • Latvian: “Kuka sala”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cook Island (Sør-Sandwichøyene)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cook Island”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cook Island i Sør-Sandwichøyane”
  • Norwegian: “Cook Island”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cōc Īeȝ (on þǣm Sūþsandƿīcīeȝum)”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cōc Īeȝ, Sūða Sandƿīcīeȝa”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cōc Īeȝ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cōcīeg”
  • Persian: “جزیره کوک، جزایر ساندویچ جنوبی”
  • Persian: “جزیره کوک٬ جزایر ساندویچ جنوبی”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha cook, ilhas sandwich do sul”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Cook, Ilhas Sandwich do Sul”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha cook”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Cook”
  • Russian: “остров Кука”
  • Russian: “Остров Кука”
  • Spanish: “Isla Cook”
  • Swedish: “Cook Island”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ کک، جزائر جنوبی سینڈوچ”

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