McCarthy Island
McCarthy Island is an island, 1 nautical mile long, lying in the entrance to King Haakon Bay on the south side of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Timothy McCarthy, a seaman on the Endurance during the British expedition under Ernest Shackleton, 1914–16.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cave Cove and McNish Island.
Cave Cove
Cave
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
King Haakon Bay, or King Haakon Sound, is an inlet on the southern coast of the island of South Georgia. The inlet is approximately 13 km long and 4 km wide.
McNish Island
Islet
McNish Island is the larger of two islands lying at the east side of Cheapman Bay on the south side of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Harry McNish, carpenter on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Peggotty Bluff.
Peggotty Bluff
Locality
King Haakon Bay, or King Haakon Sound, is an inlet on the southern coast of the island of South Georgia. The inlet is approximately 13 km long and 4 km wide. Peggotty Bluff is situated 9 km east of McCarthy Island.
McCarthy Island
- Type: Island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-54.16778° or 54° 10′ 4″ southLongitude
-37.42332° or 37° 25′ 24″ westElevation
2 metres (7 feet)Open location code
39Q4RHJG+VMOpenStreetMap ID
way 295504383OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
10787605Wikidata ID
Q6800210
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“McCarthy Island” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “麥卡錫島”
- German: “McCarthy Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “McCarthy Island i Sør-Georgia”
- Spanish: “Isla McCarthy”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Hammerstad Reef and Mount Ashley.
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