Hornaday Rock
Hornaday Rock is a rock lying in Bird Sound, 0.6 nautical miles west-southwest of Cape Alexandra at the west end of South Georgia. The feature appears on charts dating back to the 1930s.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gony Point and Square Rock.
Gony Point
Peak
Gony Point is a high tussock-covered point 0.5 miles southwest of Cardno Point, on the southeast side of Bird Island, South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1963.
Square Rock
Square Rock is a rock lying 0.3 nautical miles west of Cape Alexandra, at the west end of South Georgia. The name appears to be first used on a 1938 British Admiralty chart. This article incorporates public domain material from…Roché Peak
Peak
Roché Peak is a conspicuous peak rising to 365 metres, the highest feature on Bird Island, South Georgia. It stands 1.6 kilometres west of the east extremity of the island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cordall Stacks and Pio Point.
Cordall Stacks
Locality
The Cordall Stacks are two conspicuous rock stacks, the eastern one joined to Bird Island, South Georgia, by a low isthmus, lying on the northwest side of the island 0.3 nautical miles northwest of Jordan Cove. Cordall Stacks is situated 2½ km northwest of Hornaday Rock.
Pio Point
Locality
Pio Point is a point forming the north side of the entrance to Johnson Cove at the west end of Bird Island, South Georgia. Roughly charted by DI personnel on the Discovery in the period 1926-30 and surveyed by HMS Owen in 1960–61. Pio Point is situated 4 km west of Hornaday Rock.
Pyramid Point
Locality
Elsehul is a bay along the north coast of South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Elsehul is approximately 0.5 miles wide, and is separated from nearby Undine Harbour by the narrow Survey Isthmus. Pyramid Point is situated 4½ km east of Hornaday Rock.
Hornaday Rock
- Type: Rock
- Categories: rock and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-54.01264° or 54° 0′ 46″ southLongitude
-38.02396° or 38° 1′ 26″ westElevation
27 metres (89 feet)Open location code
39Q3XXPG+WCOpenStreetMap ID
way 552087411OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bare_rock
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Hornaday Rock” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “霍納迪岩”
- German: “Hornaday Rock”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hornaday Rock”
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