Islands
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands

Ferguson Peak

Ferguson Peak is a peak, 560 metres high, standing close west of the head of Cooper Bay in the eastern extremity of South Georgia. It was photographed by Niall Rankin during his visit to South Georgia in 1947.
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Photo: Christopher Michel, CC BY 2.0.
  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 560 metres
  • Description: mountain in South Georgia
  • Also known as: “Fur Seal Peak”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Quensel Glacier and Lewald Glacier.

Glacier
is a small flowing southeast into Cooper Bay at the east tip of South Georgia. It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Percy D.

Glacier
is a small 3 nautical miles west of , flowing northward to the coast at the east end of South Georgia. It was named by the Second German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–12, under Wilhelm Filchner, for Theodor Lewald, Ministerialdirektor im Reichsamt des Innern, Germany, who took an active interest in the expedition.

Ferguson Peak

Latitude
-54.7785° or 54° 46′ 43″ south
Longitude
-35.85575° or 35° 51′ 21″ west
Elevation
560 metres (1,837 feet)
Open location code
39Q664CV+JM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9112167798
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
10787518
Wiki­data ID
Q5444248
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Satellite Map

Discover Ferguson Peak from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Spanish—“Ferguson Peak” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “費格森峰”
  • Dutch: “Ferguson Peak”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل فيرجوسون پياك”
  • German: “Ferguson Peak”
  • Ladin: “Ferguson Peak”
  • Low German: “Ferguson Peak (Süüdgeorgien)”
  • Low German: “Ferguson Peak”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ferguson Peak”
  • Spanish: “Pico Ferguson”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Wasp Island and Brambleleaf Island.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ferguson Peak”. Photo: Christopher Michel, CC BY 2.0.