Tiger Island
Granite Harbour is a bay in the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, about 14 nautical miles long, entered between Cape Archer and Cape Roberts. It was discovered and named by the British National Antarctic Expedition of 1901–04 in the Discovery in January 1902, while searching for safe winter quarters for the ship.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Red Buttress Peak.
Red Buttress Peak
Peak
Granite Harbour is a bay in the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, about 14 nautical miles long, entered between Cape Archer and Cape Roberts. It was discovered and named by the British National Antarctic Expedition of 1901–04 in the Discovery in January 1902, while searching for safe winter quarters for the ship. Red Buttress Peak is situated 4 km southwest of Tiger Island.
Tiger Island
- Type: Island
- Description: off Victoria Land, Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Tiger Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Tiger Island”
- Chinese: “虎島”
- Dutch: “Tiger Island”
- German: “Tiger Island”
- Swedish: “Tiger Island”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Cọp (châu Nam Cực)”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Cọp”
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