Islands
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands

Bristol Island

Bristol Island is an uninhabited island in the South Sandwich Islands, an archipelago in the Southern Ocean. The island is almost entirely surrounded by ice cliffs and largely covered with ice.
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Photo: NASA, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Sourabaya and Mount Darnley.

Volcano
is a 915-metre volcano 1 nautical mile northwest of on Bristol Island in the South Sandwich Islands. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971, its name refers to the whaling factory ship Sourabaya, from which an eruption was witnessed in 1935.

Volcano
is a mountain, 1,160 metres high, in the south-central portion of Bristol Island in the South Sandwich Islands off Antarctica. It was charted in 1930 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II, who named it for E.R. Darnley.

Bristol Island

Latitude
-59.01392° or 59° 0′ 50″ south
Longitude
-26.53456° or 26° 32′ 4″ west
Elevation
347 metres (1,138 feet)
Open location code
39GMXFP8+C5
Open­Street­Map ID
way 229914732
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
3426567
Wiki­data ID
Q917948
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Satellite Map

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

From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Bristol Island” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Bristol adası”
  • Breton: “Enez Bristol”
  • Catalan: “illa Bristol”
  • Catalan: “Illa Bristol”
  • Cebuano: “Bristol Island (pulo sa South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)”
  • Cebuano: “Bristol Island”
  • Chinese: “布里斯托爾島”
  • Czech: “Bristol”
  • Dutch: “Bristol Island”
  • French: “Ile Bristol”
  • French: “île Bristol”
  • French: “Île Bristol”
  • German: “Bristol Island”
  • Hebrew: “בריסטול (אי)”
  • Italian: “Bristol Island”
  • Italian: “Isola Bristol”
  • Italian: “isola di Bristol”
  • Italian: “Isola di Bristol”
  • Japanese: “ブリストル島”
  • Latvian: “Bristola sala”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bristol Island”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bristol Island”
  • Norwegian: “Bristol Island”
  • Norwegian: “Bristoløya”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Brycgstow Ieg”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Brycgstōw Īeg”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Brycgstōwīeg”
  • Persian: “جزیره بریستول”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha bristol”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Bristol”
  • Russian: “Бристол”
  • Russian: “остров Бристол”
  • Spanish: “Isla Blanca (Islas Sandwich del Sur)”
  • Spanish: “Isla Blanca (Sandwich del Sur)”
  • Spanish: “Isla Blanco”
  • Swedish: “Bristol Island”
  • Ukrainian: “Бристоль (острів)”
  • Ukrainian: “Бристоль”

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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 “Bristol Island”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.