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.Places of Interest
Highlights: Cave Cove and McNish Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Peggotty Bluff.
Peggotty Bluff
Locality
King Haakon Bay, or King Haakon Sound, is an inlet… 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″ south
Longitude
-37.42332° or 37° 25′ 24″ west
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
Open location code
39Q4RHJG+VM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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
Places to explore: Aucellina Point and Nuñez Peninsula.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Hammerstad Reef and Mount Ashley.
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