Albatross Island
Albatross Island is an small islet located 2 miles southeast of Cape Buller in the Bay of Isles. It is part of South Georgia, a British Overseas Territory to the east of Falkland Islands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island in South Georgia
- Also known as: “Albatros Insel” and “Albatross Islet”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Invisible Island and Crescent Island.
Invisible Island
Islet
Invisible Island is a small, tussock-covered island lying close southeast of Crescent Island and Mollyhawk Island in the Bay of Isles, South Georgia. It was charted in 1912–13 by Robert Cushman Murphy, an American naturalist aboard the brig Daisy, and was probably named by Discovery Investigations personnel who surveyed the Bay of Isles in 1929–30.
Crescent Island
Islet
Crescent Island is a small, roughly crescent-shaped island lying close south of Mollyhawk Island in the Bay of Isles, South Georgia. It was roughly charted in 1912–13 by Robert Cushman Murphy.
Mollyhawk Island
Islet
Mollyhawk Island is a small, tussock-covered island lying between Seaward Rock and Crescent Island in the northern part of the Bay of Isles, South Georgia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Salisbury Plain.
Salisbury Plain
Locality
Photo: Pismire, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Salisbury Plain is a broad coastal plain found with the Bay of Isles on the north coast of South Georgia. It lies between the mouths of Grace and Lucas glaciers on the southern coast of the bay, with Mount Ashley south of it.
Albatross Island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-54.02503° or 54° 1′ 30″ southLongitude
-37.33354° or 37° 20′ 1″ westElevation
2 metres (7 feet)Open location code
39Q4XMF8+XHOpenStreetMap ID
way 146992623OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
3426607Wikidata ID
Q33770
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Albatross Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Albatross Island”
- Chinese: “阿爾巴特羅斯島”
- Dutch: “Albatross Island”
- German: “Albatross Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Albatross Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Albatrossøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Albatrossøya”
- Norwegian: “Albatrossøya”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Albatroz”
- Spanish: “Isla Albatros”
- Swedish: “Albatross Island”
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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 “Albatross Island”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.