Owen Shoals
Owen Shoals is an area of shoals 2.5 nautical miles northwest of the northwest extremity of Bird Island, South Georgia. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after HMS Owen, which surveyed the feature in 1960–61.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pyramid Point and Low Rock Point.
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 6 km south of Owen Shoals.
Low Rock Point
Locality
Low Rock Point is a point forming the west side of the entrance to Church Bay, near the west end of the north coast of South Georgia. It was charted by Discovery Investigations personnel in 1926–30, and so named because a low rock lies off the point. Low Rock Point is situated 6 km southeast of Owen Shoals.
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. Cordall Stacks is situated 8 km southwest of Owen Shoals.
Owen Shoals
- Type: Shoal
- Description: reef in the United Kingdom
- Categories: reef and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-53.97074° or 53° 58′ 15″ southLongitude
-37.95854° or 37° 57′ 31″ westOpen location code
39R422HR+PHOpenStreetMap ID
way 562708242OpenStreetMap feature
natural=shoalGeoNames ID
3474084Wikidata ID
Q7114633
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Owen Shoals” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Owen Shoals (kagaangan)”
- Cebuano: “Owen Shoals”
- German: “Owen Shoals”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Owen Shoals”
- Swedish: “Owen Shoals”
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