Grey Island
Grey Island is 1 km south of Michelsen Island and 2 km west of the southern part of Fredriksen Island, in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. It was first charted and named Holmen Graa on a map by the Norwegian whaler Captain Petter Sorlle, who made a running survey of the South Orkney Islands in 1912–13.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Michelsen Island and Christoffersen Island.
Michelsen Island
Islet
Michelsen Island is a small island in the South Orkney Islands off Antarctica. It is joined to the southern end of Powell Island by a narrow isthmus of occasionally submerged boulders.
Christoffersen Island
Islet
Christoffersen Island is a small island immediately west of the southern end of Powell Island in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. The name appears on a chart by Norwegian whaling captain Petter Sorlle, who made a running survey of these islands in 1912–13. Christoffersen Island is situated 2½ km northwest of Grey Island.
Grey Island
- Type: Islet
- Description: island in the Antarctic
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-60.74871° or 60° 44′ 55″ southLongitude
-45.01505° or 45° 0′ 54″ westOpen location code
38FP7X2M+GXOpenStreetMap ID
way 233396599OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Grey Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Grey Island”
- Chinese: “格雷島”
- Dutch: “Grey Island”
- German: “Grey Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Holmengrå”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Grey Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Holmengrå i Sør-Orknøyane”
- Norwegian: “Holmengrå”
- Swedish: “Grey Island, Antarktis”
- Swedish: “Grey Island”
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