Black Rock
Black Rock is a low rock 10 miles southeast of Shag Rocks and some 105 miles west-northwest of South Georgia. Black Rock may have been considered as part of the "Aurora Islands" reported in this vicinity by the ship Aurora in 1762.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Islet
- Description: rock in South Georgia, Antarctica
- Also known as: “Black Rock, South Georgia”
Black Rock
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-53.63503° or 53° 38′ 6″ southLongitude
-41.77633° or 41° 46′ 35″ westOpen location code
38RW967F+XFOpenStreetMap ID
way 146990883OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Spanish—“Black Rock” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Blək qayası”
- Chinese: “布萊克岩”
- German: “Black Rock”
- Hungarian: “Black Rock”
- Italian: “Black Rock (isola)”
- Italian: “Black Rock”
- Japanese: “ブラック岩礁”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Black Rock i Sør-Georgia”
- Polish: “Black Rock”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Black Rock”
- Spanish: “Black Rock”
- Spanish: “Roca Negra”
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