Shag Rocks
The Shag Rocks are six small islets in the westernmost extreme of South Georgia, 240 km west of the main island of South Georgia and 1,000 km off Islas Malvinas.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Rock
- Description: island group
- Also known as: “Aurora Islands”, “Shag Felsen”, and “Shag Skjoerne”
Shag Rocks
- Categories: island group and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Spanish—“Shag Rocks” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Շագ (քարաժայռեր)”
- Armenian: “Շագ”
- Asturian: “Shag Rocks”
- Azerbaijani: “Şaq qayalıqları”
- Catalan: “Shag Rocks”
- Chinese: “沙格岩”
- Dutch: “Shag Rocks”
- Esperanto: “Aŭroroj”
- French: “Shag Rocks”
- Galician: “Illas Aurora”
- Galician: “Illas Auroras”
- Galician: “Illas da Aurora”
- Galician: “Rocas Comoran e Negra”
- Galician: “Shag Rocks and Black Rock”
- German: “Islas Aurora”
- German: “Shag Rocks”
- Hausa: “Shag Rocks (Kudancin Georgia)”
- Hausa: “Shag Rocks”
- Italian: “Shag Rocks”
- Japanese: “シャグ岩礁”
- Malay: “Shag Rocks (Georgia Selatan)”
- Malay: “Shag Rocks”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shag Rocks”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shag Rocks i Sør-Georgia”
- Norwegian: “Shag Rocks”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Scræf Clūdas”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Scræfclūdas”
- Polish: “Shag Rocks”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Aurora”
- Portuguese: “Shag Rocks”
- Portuguese: “Shag”
- Russian: “Шаг”
- Spanish: “Islas Aurora”
- Spanish: “Rocas Cormoran y Negra”
- Spanish: “Rocas Cormorán y Negra”
- Spanish: “Rocas Cormoran”
- Spanish: “Rocas Cormorán”
- Spanish: “Rocas Shag”
- Spanish: “Shag Rocks”
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