Grytviken
Grytviken is a former whaling station on South Georgia Island. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Jens Bludau, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- 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.
South Georgia Museum
Museum
Photo: Wofratz, Public domain.
The South Georgia Museum is situated in Grytviken, near the administrative centre of the UK overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
Norwegian Anglican Church
Church
Photo: nomis-simon, CC BY 2.0.
The Norwegian Anglican Church, 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.
Mount Hodges
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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.
King Edward Point
Village
Photo: Liam Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grytviken is a former whaling station on South Georgia Island. 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.
Discovery Point
Locality
Moraine Fjord is an inlet 3.5 nautical miles long with a reef extending across its entrance, forming the west head of Cumberland East Bay, South Georgia. Discovery Point is situated 3½ km southeast of Grytviken.
Grytviken
- Categories: whaling station, hamlet, and locality
- Location: South Georgia Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-54.2806° or 54° 16′ 50″ southLongitude
-36.5098° or 36° 30′ 35″ westPopulation
20Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)United Nations Location Code
GS GRVOpen location code
39Q5PF9R+P3OpenStreetMap ID
node 5722989121OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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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”
- 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Grytviken”. Photo: Jens Bludau, CC BY-SA 3.0.