Pothole Gulch
Pothole Gulch is a gulch whose bed is broken by numerous potholes, draining the southeast portion of Vindication Island, South Sandwich Islands. The descriptive name was applied by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971.| 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 3 km west of Pothole Gulch.
Pothole Gulch
- Type: Valley
- Description: valley in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, United Kingdom
- Category: landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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In Other Languages
From German to Spanish—“Pothole Gulch” goes by many names.
- German: “Pothole Gulch”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pothole Gulch”
- Spanish: “Valle Pothole”
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