Leafvein Gulch
Leafvein Gulch is a valley 0.5 nautical miles long with intensely gullied flanks, draining the northeastern part of Vindication Island in the South Sandwich Islands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cook Rock and Trousers Rock.
Cook Rock
Islet
Cook Rock is an arched rock, 45 metres high, lying close east of Trousers Rock and 0.3 nautical miles northeast of Vindication Island in the South Sandwich Islands.
Trousers Rock
Islet
Trousers Rock is a rock with a prominent wave-cut arch, lying immediately west of Cook Rock and 0.3 nautical miles northeast of Vindication Island in the South Sandwich Islands.
Vindication Island
Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Vindication Island is a small uninhabited island of the Candlemas Islands in the South Sandwich Islands. It is one of about a dozen islands that make up the South Sandwich island arc, a chain of volcanoes in the Southern Ocean that was discovered in 1775 by James Cook. Vindication Island is situated 3½ km southwest of Leafvein Gulch.
Leafvein Gulch
- Type: Valley
- Description: valley on Vindication Island, South Sandwich Islands
- Category: landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Satellite Map
Discover Leafvein Gulch from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From German to Spanish—“Leafvein Gulch” goes by many names.
- German: “Leafvein Gulch”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leafvein Gulch”
- Spanish: “Valle Leafvein”
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