Bird Sound
Bird Sound is a hazardous but navigable sound, 1 nautical mile long and 0.5 nautical miles wide, separating Bird Island from the west end of South Georgia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Sound
- Description: strait in the United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Bird Strait” and “La Roche Strait”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gony Point and Roché Peak.
Gony Point
Peak
Gony Point is a high tussock-covered point 0.5 miles southwest of Cardno Point, on the southeast side of Bird Island, South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1963.
Roché Peak
Peak
Roché Peak is a conspicuous peak rising to 365 metres, the highest feature on Bird Island, South Georgia. It stands 1.6 kilometres west of the east extremity of the island.
Square Rock
Square Rock is a rock lying 0.3 nautical miles west of Cape Alexandra, at the west end of South Georgia. The name appears to be first used on a 1938 British Admiralty chart. This article incorporates public domain material from…Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cordall Stacks and Pio Point.
Cordall Stacks
Locality
The Cordall Stacks are two conspicuous rock stacks, the eastern one joined to Bird Island, South Georgia, by a low isthmus, lying on the northwest side of the island 0.3 nautical miles northwest of Jordan Cove.
Pio Point
Locality
Pio Point is a point forming the north side of the entrance to Johnson Cove at the west end of Bird Island, South Georgia. Roughly charted by DI personnel on the Discovery in the period 1926-30 and surveyed by HMS Owen in 1960–61. Pio Point is situated 4 km west of Bird Sound.
Pyramid Point
Locality
Elsehul is a bay along the north coast of South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Elsehul is approximately 0.5 miles wide, and is separated from nearby Undine Harbour by the narrow Survey Isthmus. Pyramid Point is situated 4½ km east of Bird Sound.
Bird Sound
- Categories: strait and body of water
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Bird Sound” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bird Sound”
- Chinese: “伯德灣”
- German: “Bird Sound”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bird Sound”
- Swedish: “Bird Sound”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Bird and Begg Point.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hornaday Rock and Gony Point.
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