Islands
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands

Kjellstrøm Rock

Kjellstrøm Rock is a rock lying 0.5 nautical miles northwest of , off the south coast of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Johan Kjellstrøm, a gunner of the Compañía Argentina de Pesca, , 1943–50, and of the South Georgia Whaling Co, , 1950–55.
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  • Type: Islet
  • Description: rock formation in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Kjellstrom Rock”

Kjellstrøm Rock

Latitude
-54.27407° or 54° 16′ 27″ south
Longitude
-37.43213° or 37° 25′ 56″ west
Open location code
39Q4PHG9+94
Open­Street­Map ID
way 987310031
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­islet
Geo­Names ID
3474103
Wiki­data ID
Q6419447
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Kjellstrøm Rock” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Kjellstrøm Rock”
  • Chinese: “謝爾斯特勒姆岩”
  • German: “Kjellstrøm Rock”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kjellstrom Rock”
  • Swedish: “Kjellstrøm Rock”

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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 “Kjellstrøm Rock”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.