Cairns Shoal
Cairns Shoal is a shoal in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.Places of Interest
Highlights include Comer Crag.
Comer Crag
Peak
Comer Crag is a crag, 635 metres high, standing 1 nautical mile north of the head of Ice Fjord in the western part of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Captain George Comer of East Haddam, Connecticut, who made his first sealing visit to South Georgia in the topsail schooner Era in 1885. Comer Crag is situated 3½ km southeast of Cairns Shoal.
Cairns Shoal
- Type: Shoal
- Also known as: “Smiths Shoal”
- Category: landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-54° or 54° southLongitude
-37.66667° or 37° 40′ westOpen location code
39R4282M+28GeoNames ID
10787473
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Low Rock Point and Jock Point.
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Highlights include Right Whale Bay and Bloor Reef.
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