South Georgia Island
South Georgia Island is a sub-Antarctic island administered by the United Kingdom as part of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies 1390 km southeast of the Falkland Islands and 2150 km from South America, and is 170 km long by 35 km wide with a mountainous interior.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo.
Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Grytviken.
Grytviken
Photo: Jens Bludau, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
South Georgia Island
- Type: Island with 30 residents
- Description: island in the South Atlantic
- Also known as: “Isle of Georgia” and “South Georgia”
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“South Georgia Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة جورجيا الجنوبية”
- Armenian: “Հարավային Ջորջիա”
- Azerbaijani: “Cənubi Georgiya”
- Basque: “Hego Georgia”
- Basque: “Hegoaldeko Georgiak”
- Bavarian: “Sidgeorgien”
- Bavarian: “Südgeorgien”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Паўднёвая Георгія”
- Belarusian: “Паўднёвая Георгія”
- Bosnian: “Južna Georgia”
- Breton: “Georgia ar Su”
- Catalan: “Illa de Geòrgia del Sud”
- Cebuano: “South Georgia”
- Chinese: “南乔治亚岛”
- Chinese: “南佐治亞”
- Chinese: “南佐治亞島”
- Chinese: “南喬治亞島”
- Croatian: “Južna Georgia”
- Czech: “Jižní Georgie”
- Dutch: “South Georgia”
- Dutch: “Zuid-Georgia”
- Dutch: “Zuid-Georgie”
- Dutch: “Zuid-Georgië”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سوث جيورجيا”
- Esperanto: “Sud-Georgio”
- Estonian: “Lõuna-Georgia”
- Finnish: “Etelä-Georgia”
- French: “Géorgie du Sud”
- French: “île de Géorgie du Sud”
- Galician: “Xeorxia do Sur - South Georgia”
- Galician: “Xeorxia do Sur”
- Georgian: “სამხრეთი ჯორჯია”
- German: “Süd-Georgien”
- German: “Südgeorgien”
- Hebrew: “ג’ורג’יה הדרומית”
- Hungarian: “Déli-Georgia sziget”
- Hungarian: “Déli-Georgia”
- Indonesian: “Georgia Selatan (pulau)”
- Indonesian: “Georgia Selatan”
- Irish: “an tSeoirsia Theas”
- Irish: “An tSeoirsia Theas”
- Italian: “Georgia australe”
- Italian: “Georgia del Sud”
- Italian: “Isola della Georgia del Sud”
- Japanese: “サウスジョージア島”
- Korean: “사우스조지아섬”
- Latin: “Georgia Australis”
- Latvian: “Dienviddžordžija”
- Latvian: “Rošē sala”
- Latvian: “South Georgia”
- Lithuanian: “Pietų Džordžija”
- Luxembourgish: “South Georgia Island”
- Luxembourgish: “South Georgia”
- Luxembourgish: “Südgeorgien”
- Macedonian: “Јужна Џорџија”
- Northern Sami: “Lulli-Georgia”
- Northern Sami: “Mátta-Georgia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sør-Georgia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sørgeorgia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “South Georgia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Syd-Georgia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sydgeorgia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sør-Georgia”
- Norwegian: “Sør-Georgia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Georgia del Sud”
- Persian: “جزیره جورجیای جنوبی”
- Polish: “Georgia Południowa”
- Polish: “Południowa Georgia”
- Portuguese: “Geórgia do Sul”
- Portuguese: “South Georgia”
- Russian: “Южная Георгия”
- Slovak: “Južná Georgia”
- Slovenian: “Južna Georgija”
- Spanish: “Isla Georgia del Sur”
- Spanish: “Isla San Pedro (Georgias del Sur)”
- Spanish: “Isla San Pedro”
- Spanish: “Islas Georgias del Sur”
- Spanish: “San Pedro (Georgia del Sur)”
- Swahili: “Georgia Kusini”
- Swahili: “South Georgia”
- Swedish: “South Georgia”
- Swedish: “Sydgeorgien”
- Thai: “เกาะเซาท์จอร์เจีย”
- Turkish: “Güney Georgia Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Південна Георгія”
- Ukrainian: “Південна Джорджія”
- Urdu: “جنوبی جارجیا (جزیرہ)”
- Urdu: “جنوبی جارجیا”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Nam Georgia”
- Welsh: “De Georgia”
- Western Frisian: “Súd-Georgia”
- Western Frisian: “Súd-Georgje”
- Yue Chinese: “南佐治亞”
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