Stromness
Stromness is an abandoned whaling station on the northern coast of South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic. It was the destination of Sir Ernest Shackleton's rescue journey in 1916.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jens Bludau, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: settlement in South Georgia
- Also known as: “Stromness, South Georgia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Parochlus Lake and Mount Barren.
Parochlus Lake
Lake
Parochlus Lake is a shallow lake at the head of Karrakatta Valley, to the west-northwest of Husvik Harbor, South Georgia. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1990 after the midge Parochlus steinenii, whose larvae abound near the margins of the lake. Parochlus Lake is situated 2½ km southwest of Stromness.
Mount Barren
Peak
Mount Barren is a mountain, 645 metres high, standing west of Husvik Harbour on the north coast of South Georgia. Its name is descriptive, and was probably given by the Discovery Investigations in 1926–30. Mount Barren is situated 3½ km southwest of Stromness.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Husvik and Leith Harbour.
Husvik
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Husvik is a former whaling station on the north-central coast of South Georgia Island. It was one of three such stations in Stromness Bay, the other two being Stromness and Leith Harbour.
Leith Harbour
Village
Photo: Harley D. Nygren, Public domain.
Leith Harbour, also known as Port Leith, was a whaling station on the northeast coast of South Georgia, established and operated by Christian Salvesen Ltd, Edinburgh. Leith Harbour is situated 2½ km northeast of Stromness.
Stromness
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-54.15992° or 54° 9′ 36″ southLongitude
-36.71207° or 36° 42′ 43″ westElevation
9 metres (30 feet)Open location code
39Q5R7RQ+25OpenStreetMap ID
node 5723089324OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Stromness” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سترومنيس”
- Dutch: “Stromness, South Georgia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سترومنيس”
- French: “Stromness”
- German: “Stromness”
- Hungarian: “Stromness”
- Italian: “Stromness”
- Japanese: “ストロムネス”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Strømnes”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Strømnes”
- Norwegian: “Strømnes”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Stromnæss, Sūþgeorgia”
- Portuguese: “Stromness”
- Spanish: “Stromness”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Watering Cove and Karrakatta Gorge.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Stromness Whaling Station and Carpenters Shop.
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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 “Stromness”. Photo: Jens Bludau, CC BY-SA 3.0.