Saunders Island

Saunders Island is a cape in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Michael.

Mount Michael

Volcano

Photo: NASA, Public domain.

Mount Michael is an active stratovolcano on Saunders Island in the remote South Sandwich Islands of the South Atlantic Ocean. It is one of only a few volcanoes on Earth confirmed to host a persistent lava lake within its summit crater.

Saunders Island

Type: Cape
Also known as: “Carey point”, “Carey Point”, “Punta Rocosa”, and “Rocky Point”
Category: landform
Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude

-57.804° or 57° 48′ 14″ south

Longitude

-26.54134° or 26° 32′ 29″ west

Open location code

39JM5FW5+CF

OpenStreetMap ID

node 6709137283

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=cape

GeoNames ID

3426552

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Satellite Map

Discover Saunders Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From French to Spanish—“Saunders Island” goes by many names.

French: “Île Saunders”
German: “Saunders Island”
Portuguese: “Ilha Saunders”
Spanish: “Isla Saunders”

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