South Orkney Islands
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- Type: Island
- Description: group of islands in the Southern Ocean
- Also known as: “Orcadas del Sur”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nivea, Mount.
Nivea, Mount
Peak
Mount Nivea is a conspicuous, snow-topped, 1,265 m high mountain at the head of Sunshine Glacier on Coronation Island, in the South Orkney Islands. A number of rock towers lie on the northwest side.
South Orkney Islands
- Categories: archipelago and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
Discover South Orkney Islands from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“South Orkney Islands” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Suid-Orkneyeilande”
- Afrikaans: “Suidelike Orkneyeilande”
- Arabic: “جزر أوركني الجنوبية”
- Armenian: “Հարավային Օրկնեյան կղզիներ”
- Azerbaijani: “Cənubi Orkney adaları”
- Basque: “Hego Orkadak”
- Belarusian: “Паўднёвыя Аркнейскія астравы”
- Breton: “Inizi Orc’h ar Su”
- Bulgarian: “Южни Оркнейски острови”
- Catalan: “Illes Òrcades australs”
- Catalan: “Illes Òrcades del Sud”
- Catalan: “Illes Orkney del Sud”
- Catalan: “Orkney del Sud”
- Cebuano: “Orcadas del Sur”
- Chinese: “南奥克尼群岛”
- Chinese: “南奧克尼群島”
- Croatian: “Južni Orkney”
- Czech: “Jižní Orkneje”
- Czech: “South Orkney Islands”
- Danish: “Sydorkney-øerne”
- Dutch: “Coronationeiland”
- Dutch: “Orcadas del Sur”
- Dutch: “South Orkney Islands”
- Dutch: “Zuid-Orkneyeilanden”
- Dutch: “Zuidelijke Orkneyeilanden”
- Esperanto: “Sudaj Orkadoj”
- Estonian: “Lõuna-Orkney saared”
- Finnish: “Etelä-Orkneyn saaret”
- Finnish: “Eteläiset Orkneysaaret”
- French: “Iles Orcades du Sud”
- French: “îles Orcades du Sud”
- French: “Îles Orcades du Sud”
- French: “Orcades du sud”
- Georgian: “სამხრეთი ორკნეის კუნძულები”
- German: “Islas Orcadas”
- German: “South Orkney Islands”
- German: “South Orkneys”
- German: “Süd-Orkney-Inseln”
- German: “Südliche Orkney-Inseln”
- German: “Südliche Orkneyinseln”
- German: “Südorkney-Inseln”
- Greek: “Νότιες Ορκάδες”
- Hebrew: “איי אורקני הדרומיים”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Orkney Selatan”
- Italian: “Isole Orcadi Meridionali”
- Italian: “Orcadi meridionali”
- Italian: “Orkney del Sud”
- Japanese: “サウス・オークニー諸島”
- Japanese: “サウスオークニー諸島”
- Kirghiz: “Түштүк Оркней аралдары”
- Korean: “사우스오크니 제도”
- Latin: “Orcades Australes”
- Latvian: “Dienvidorkneju salas”
- Lithuanian: “Pietų Orknio salos”
- Macedonian: “Јужни Оркниски Острови”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sør Orknøyene”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sør-Orknøyene”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “South Orkney Islands”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sør-Orknøyane”
- Norwegian: “Sør-Orknøyene”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Illas Orcadas dau Sud”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sūþorcanege”
- Persian: “جزایر اورکنی جنوبی”
- Polish: “Orkady Południowe”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Órcades do Sul”
- Portuguese: “Órcades do Sul”
- Russian: “Южные Оркнейские острова”
- Russian: “Южные Оркнейские”
- Scots: “Sooth Orkney Islands”
- Serbian: “Južna Orknijska ostrva”
- Serbian: “South Orkneys”
- Serbian: “Јужна Оркнијска острва”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Južna Orknijska ostrva”
- Slovak: “Južné Orkneje”
- Slovenian: “Južni Orkneyjski otoki”
- Slovenian: “Južno Orkneysko otočje”
- Slovenian: “Otočje Orcadas”
- Spanish: “Islas Orcadas del Sur”
- Spanish: “Islas Órcadas del Sur”
- Spanish: “Orcadas del Sur, islas”
- Spanish: “Orcadas del Sur”
- Spanish: “Órcadas del Sur”
- Swedish: “Orcadas del Sur”
- Swedish: “Sydorkneyöarna”
- Tatar: “Көньяк Оркней утраулары”
- Thai: “South Orkney Islands”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะเซาท์ออร์กนีย์”
- Turkish: “Güney Orkney Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Південні Оркнейські острови”
- Uzbek: “Janubiy orkni orollari”
- Uzbek: “Janubiy Orkni orollari”
- Uzbek: “Janubiy Orkni Orollari”
- Western Frisian: “Súdlike Orkneyeilannen”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sunshine Glacier and Ommanney Bay.
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