Grytviken

Grytviken is a former whaling station on . It was founded in 1904 as it had the best harbour on this storm-wracked island, with flat ice-free terrain and a fresh water supply.
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  • Type: Village with 20 residents
  • Description: abandoned whaling station; settlement on the island of South Georgia–South Sandwich Islands
  • Also known as: “Grytviken whaling station”

Places of Interest

Highlights include South Georgia Museum and Norwegian Anglican Church.

Museum
Photo: Wofratz, Public domain.
The is situated in Grytviken, near the administrative centre of the UK overseas territory of .

Church
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The , sometimes known as the Whalers Church, and as the Norwegian Lutheran Church, and casually as the Grytviken Church, is a church in Grytviken, South Georgia, built in 1913.

Peak
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Thatcher Peninsula is a mountainous peninsula in north-central South Georgia. Its total area is approximately 5,640 hectares, with roughly 1,620 ha covered in vegetation.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include King Edward Point and Discovery Point.

Village
Photo: Liam Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grytviken is a former whaling station on . It was founded in 1904 as it had the best harbour on this storm-wracked island, with flat ice-free terrain and a fresh water supply.

Locality
Moraine Fjord is an inlet 3.5 nautical miles long with a reef extending across its entrance, forming the west head of , South Georgia. is situated 3½ km southeast of Grytviken.

Grytviken

Latitude
-54.2806° or 54° 16′ 50″ south
Longitude
-36.5098° or 36° 30′ 35″ west
Population
20
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
United Nations Location Code
GS GRV
Open location code
39Q5PF9R+P3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5722989121
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3426466
Wiki­data ID
Q185672
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Grytviken” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Grytviken”
  • Albanian: “Grytviken”
  • Arabic: “غريتفيكن”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qryotviken”
  • Basque: “Grytviken”
  • Bavarian: “Grytviken”
  • Belarusian: “Грутвікен”
  • Bengali: “গ্রিটভিকেন”
  • Bosnian: “Grytviken”
  • Bulgarian: “Грютвикен”
  • Catalan: “Grytviken”
  • Chinese: “利德維肯”
  • Chinese: “古利德維肯”
  • Chinese: “古利德维肯”
  • Chinese: “吉列維根”
  • Croatian: “Grytviken”
  • Czech: “Grytviken”
  • Danish: “Grytviken”
  • Dutch: “Grytviken”
  • Esperanto: “Grytviken”
  • Estonian: “Grytviken”
  • Finnish: “Grytviken”
  • French: “Grytviken”
  • French: “Tim et Pauline Carr”
  • Georgian: “გრიტვიკენი”
  • German: “Grytviken”
  • Greek: “Γκρυτβίκεν”
  • Greek: “Οικισμός Γκρυτβίκεν”
  • Greek: “Φαλαινοθηρικός σταθμός Γκρυτβίκεν”
  • Gujarati: “ગ્રીટવિકન”
  • Hausa: “Grytviken”
  • Hebrew: “גריטוויקן”
  • Hindi: “ग्रित्विकेन”
  • Hungarian: “Grytviken”
  • Icelandic: “Grytviken”
  • Indonesian: “Grytviken”
  • Inupiaq: “Utkusivik”
  • Irish: “Grytviken”
  • Italian: “Grytviken”
  • Japanese: “グリトビケン”
  • Kabardian: “Грютвикен”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ರಿಟ್ವಿಕೆನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Грютвикен”
  • Korean: “그리트비켄”
  • Latvian: “Grītvīkena”
  • Lithuanian: “Griutvikenas”
  • Lithuanian: “Grytvikenas”
  • Macedonian: “Гритвикен”
  • Malay: “Grytviken”
  • Manx: “Grytviken”
  • Marathi: “ग्रिटविकेन”
  • Mongolian: “Гритвикен”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Grytvika”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Grytviken”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Grytviken”
  • Norwegian: “Grytviken”
  • Novial: “Gritviken”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Grytviken”
  • Ossetian: “Грютвикен”
  • Persian: “گریت ویکن”
  • Persian: “گریت‌ویکن”
  • Polish: “Grytviken”
  • Portuguese: “estação baleeira de Grytviken”
  • Portuguese: “Grytviken”
  • Romanian: “Grytviken”
  • Russian: “Грютвикен”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Grytviken”
  • Serbian: “Grutviken”
  • Serbian: “Grytviken”
  • Serbian: “Гритвикен”
  • Serbian: “Грјутвикен”
  • Serbian: “Грутвикен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Grytviken”
  • Sinhala: “ග්‍රිට්විකන්”
  • Slovak: “Grytviken”
  • Slovenian: “Grytviken”
  • Slovenian: “kitolovna postaja Grytviken”
  • Spanish: “Grytviken”
  • Spanish: “Puerto Grytvyken”
  • Swedish: “Grytviken”
  • Tagalog: “Grytviken”
  • Tajik: “Грутвикен”
  • Tamil: “க்ரிட்விகென்”
  • Telugu: “గ్రిట్వికెన్”
  • Thai: “กริตวีเคน”
  • Turkmen: “Grýutwiken”
  • Ukrainian: “Грютвікен”
  • Urdu: “گریتویکین”
  • Uzbek: “Gryutviken”
  • Vietnamese: “Grytviken”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Grytviken”
  • Western Frisian: “Grytviken”
  • Yoruba: “Grytviken”

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