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- Cliffs of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Headlands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Islands of the South Sandwich Islands
- Rock formations of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean
Algae
Algae (alga) are any of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms.
Andesite
Andesite is a volcanic rock of intermediate composition.
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Augite
Augite, also known as Augurite, is a common rock-forming pyroxene mineral with formula.
Basalt
Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.
Bellingshausen Island
Bellingshausen Island is one of the most southerly of the South Sandwich Islands, close to Thule Island and Cook Island, and forming part of the Southern Thule group. Bristol Island and Bellingshausen Island are islands of the South Sandwich Islands, uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Bristol Island
Bristol Island is an uninhabited island in the South Sandwich Islands, an archipelago in the Southern Ocean. Bristol Island and Bristol Island are active volcanoes, Cliffs of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Headlands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, islands of the South Sandwich Islands, rock formations of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean.
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British Antarctic Survey
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute.
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Bryophyte
Bryophytes are a group of land plants, sometimes treated as a taxonomic division, that contains three groups of non-vascular land plants (embryophytes): the liverworts, hornworts, and mosses.
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Bryozoa
Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals) are a phylum of simple, aquatic invertebrate animals, nearly all living in sedentary colonies.
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Calc-alkaline magma series
The calc-alkaline magma series is one of two main subdivisions of the subalkaline magma series, the other subalkaline magma series being the tholeiitic series.
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Candlemas Island
Candlemas Island is a small uninhabited island of the Candlemas Islands in the South Sandwich Islands. Bristol Island and Candlemas Island are active volcanoes, islands of the South Sandwich Islands, uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Cerro Azul (Chile volcano)
Cerro Azul (blue hill in Spanish), sometimes referred to as Quizapu, is an active stratovolcano in the Maule Region of central Chile, immediately south of Descabezado Grande. Bristol Island and Cerro Azul (Chile volcano) are active volcanoes.
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Cinder cone
A cinder cone (or scoria cone) is a steep conical hill of loose pyroclastic fragments, such as volcanic clinkers, volcanic ash, or scoria that has been built around a volcanic vent.
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Coastal erosion
Coastal erosion is the loss or displacement of land, or the long-term removal of sediment and rocks along the coastline due to the action of waves, currents, tides, wind-driven water, waterborne ice, or other impacts of storms.
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Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands
Cook Island is the central and largest island of the Southern Thule island group, part of the South Sandwich Islands in the far south Atlantic Ocean. Bristol Island and Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands are islands of the South Sandwich Islands, uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Dike (geology)
In geology, a dike or dyke is a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body.
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Discovery Committee
The Discovery Committee was a popular name for the Interdepartmental Committee for the Dependencies of the Falkland Islands established by the British Government to carry out scientific investigations (which became known as ‘Discovery Investigations’) and to propose nature resource conservation and economic development policies for the Falkland Islands Dependencies.
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Discovery Investigations
The Discovery Investigations were a series of scientific cruises and shore-based investigations into the biology of whales in the Southern Ocean.
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East Antarctic Ice Sheet
The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) lies between 45° west and 168° east longitudinally.
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European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica
The European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) is a multinational European project for deep ice core drilling in Antarctica.
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Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshausen or Fabian Gottlieb Benjamin von Bellingshausen (–) was a Russian cartographer, explorer, and naval officer of Baltic German descent, who attained the rank of admiral.
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Forsters Passage
Forsters Passage (Pasaje Forster) is a body of water between Bristol Island and Southern Thule in the South Sandwich Islands.
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Fumarole
A fumarole (or fumerole) is a vent in the surface of the Earth or another rocky planet from which hot volcanic gases and vapors are emitted, without any accompanying liquids or solids.
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Great Britain
Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.
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Hafnium
Hafnium is a chemical element; it has symbol Hf and atomic number 72.
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Havfruen Peak
Havfruen Peak is a peak in the eastern part of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands.
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Helicopter
A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors.
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HMS Resolution (1771)
HMS Resolution was a sloop of the Royal Navy, a converted merchant collier purchased by the Navy and adapted, in which Captain James Cook made his second and third voyages of exploration in the Pacific.
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Hypersthene
Hypersthene is a common rock-forming inosilicate mineral belonging to the group of orthorhombic pyroxenes.
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Ice core
An ice core is a core sample that is typically removed from an ice sheet or a high mountain glacier.
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Imperial shag
The imperial shag or imperial cormorant (Leucocarbo atriceps) is a black and white cormorant native to southern South America, primarily in rocky coastal regions, but locally also at large inland lakes.
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Island
An island or isle is a piece of subcontinental land completely surrounded by water.
Island arc
Island arcs are long chains of active volcanoes with intense seismic activity found along convergent tectonic plate boundaries.
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Isopoda
Isopoda is an order of crustaceans.
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James Cook
Captain James Cook (– 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.
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K–Ar dating
Potassium–argon dating, abbreviated K–Ar dating, is a radiometric dating method used in geochronology and archaeology.
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Kemp Caldera
Kemp Caldera and Kemp Seamount form a submarine volcano south of the South Sandwich Islands, in a region where several seamounts are located.
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Lava
Lava is molten or partially molten rock (magma) that has been expelled from the interior of a terrestrial planet (such as Earth) or a moon onto its surface.
Lava dome
In volcanology, a lava dome is a circular, mound-shaped protrusion resulting from the slow extrusion of viscous lava from a volcano.
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Leskov Island
Leskov Island is one of the three Traversay Islands that form a subgroup of the South Sandwich Islands, in the Southern Ocean. Bristol Island and Leskov Island are islands of the South Sandwich Islands, uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Lichen
A lichen is a symbiosis of algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species, along with a yeast embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualistic relationship.
List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands
This is a list of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands.
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List of volcanoes in South Sandwich Islands
This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in the South Sandwich Islands. Bristol Island and list of volcanoes in South Sandwich Islands are volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
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Montagu Island
Montagu Island is the largest of the South Sandwich Islands, located in the Scotia Sea off the coast of Antarctica. Bristol Island and Montagu Island are islands of the South Sandwich Islands, uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Moss
Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta sensu stricto.
Mount Darnley
Mount Darnley is a mountain, high, in the south-central portion of Bristol Island in the South Sandwich Islands off Antarctica.
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Mount Sourabaya
Mount Sourabaya is a mountain (915 m) 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) northwest of Mount Darnley, Bristol Island, in the South Sandwich Islands.
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Olivine
The mineral olivine is a magnesium iron silicate with the chemical formula.
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Parasitic cone
A parasitic cone (also adventive cone or satellite cone) is the cone-shaped accumulation of volcanic material not part of the central vent of a volcano.
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Pelagic sediment
Pelagic sediment or pelagite is a fine-grained sediment that accumulates as the result of the settling of particles to the floor of the open ocean, far from land.
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Penguin
Penguins are a group of aquatic flightless birds from the family Spheniscidae of the order Sphenisciformes.
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Permanent secretary (UK)
A permanent under-secretary of state, known informally as a permanent secretary, is the most senior civil servant of a ministry in the United Kingdom, charged with running the department on a day-to-day basis.
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Phenocryst
Swiss side of the Mont Blanc massif, has large white phenocrysts of plagioclase (that have trapezoid shapes when cut through). 1 euro coin (diameter 2.3 cm) for scale. A phenocryst is an early forming, relatively large and usually conspicuous crystal distinctly larger than the grains of the rock groundmass of an igneous rock.
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Plagioclase
Plagioclase is a series of tectosilicate (framework silicate) minerals within the feldspar group.
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Potassium
Potassium is a chemical element; it has symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium) and atomic number19.
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Queen Maud Land
Queen Maud Land (Dronning Maud Land) is a roughly region of Antarctica claimed by Norway as a dependent territory.
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Rock (geology)
In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
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Royal Research Ship
A Royal Research Ship (RRS) is a merchant navy vessel of the United Kingdom that conducts scientific research for His Majesty's Government.
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RRS Discovery II
RRS Discovery II was a British Royal Research Ship which, during her operational lifetime of about 30 years, carried out considerable hydrographical and marine biological survey work in Antarctic waters and the Southern Ocean in the course of the Discovery Investigations research program.
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Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands
Saunders Island is a crescent-shaped island lying between Candlemas Island and Montagu Island in the South Sandwich Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Bristol Island and Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands are islands of the South Sandwich Islands and uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
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Schist
Schist is a medium-grained metamorphic rock showing pronounced schistosity.
Scotia Plate
The Scotia Plate is a minor tectonic plate on the edge of the South Atlantic and Southern oceans.
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Seabird
Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment.
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Sector collapse
A sector collapse or lateral collapse is the structural failure and subsequent collapse of part of a volcano.
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Siple Dome
Siple Dome is an ice dome approximately 100 km wide and 100 km long, located 130 km east of Siple Coast in Antarctica.
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South American Plate
The South American Plate is a major tectonic plate which includes the continent of South America as well as a sizable region of the Atlantic Ocean seabed extending eastward to the African Plate, with which it forms the southern part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
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South Georgia
South Georgia is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
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South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) is a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
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South Sandwich Islands
The South Sandwich Islands (Islas Sandwich del Sur) are a chain of uninhabited volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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Southern fulmar
The southern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialoides) is a seabird of the Southern Hemisphere.
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Southern Ocean
The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the world ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.
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Southern Thule
Southern Thule is a group of the three southernmost islands in the South Sandwich Islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean: Bellingshausen, Cook, and Thule (Morrell). Bristol Island and southern Thule are islands of the South Sandwich Islands, uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Stable isotope ratio
The term stable isotope has a meaning similar to stable nuclide, but is preferably used when speaking of nuclides of a specific element.
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Stack (geology)
A stack or sea stack is a geological landform consisting of a steep and often vertical column or columns of rock in the sea near a coast, formed by wave erosion.
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Subduction
Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries.
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Submarine volcano
Submarine volcanoes are underwater vents or fissures in the Earth's surface from which magma can erupt.
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Sulfate
The sulfate or sulphate ion is a polyatomic anion with the empirical formula.
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Summit
A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it.
Territorial evolution of the British Empire
The territorial evolution of the British Empire is considered to have begun with the foundation of the English colonial empire in the late 16th century.
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Tholeiitic magma series
The tholeiitic magma series is one of two main magma series in subalkaline igneous rocks, the other being the calc-alkaline series.
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Thule Island
Thule Island, also called Morrell Island, is one of the southernmost of the South Sandwich Islands, part of the grouping known as Southern Thule. Bristol Island and Thule Island are islands of the South Sandwich Islands, rock formations of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Tuff
Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption.
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI).
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Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies was a junior Ministerial post in the United Kingdom government, subordinate to the Secretary of State for the Colonies and, from 1948, also to a Minister of State.
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United States Board on Geographic Names
The United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) is a federal body operating under the United States Secretary of the Interior.
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Vindication Island
Vindication Island is a small uninhabited island of the Candlemas Islands in the South Sandwich Islands. Bristol Island and Vindication Island are islands of the South Sandwich Islands, uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Visokoi Island
Visokoi Island is an uninhabited volcanic island and one the three Traversay Islands that constitute a subgroup of the South Sandwich Islands, in the Southern Ocean. Bristol Island and Visokoi Island are islands of the South Sandwich Islands, uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Volcanic Ash Advisory Center
A Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) is a group of experts responsible for coordinating and disseminating information on atmospheric volcanic ash clouds that may endanger aviation.
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Volcanic cone
Volcanic cones are among the simplest volcanic landforms.
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Volcanic explosivity index
The volcanic explosivity index (VEI) is a relative measure of the explosiveness of volcanic eruptions.
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Zavodovski Island
Zavodovski Island is an uninhabited volcanic island in the Traversay Islands subgroup of the South Sandwich Islands, which are located southeast of South Georgia in the South Atlantic Ocean. Bristol Island and Zavodovski Island are islands of the South Sandwich Islands, uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean.
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See also
Cliffs of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Bristol Island
- Splinter Crag
Headlands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Allen Point
- Beach Point
- Borley Point
- Braces Point
- Bristol Island
- Cape Flannery
- Carbon Point
- Cardno Point
- Chinstrap Point
- Clapmatch Point
- Clear Point
- Crosscut Point
- Demon Point
- Diver Point
- Farewell Point
- Goldcrest Point
- Gony Point
- Hardy Point
- Harper Point
- Herd Point
- Hewison Point
- Horsburgh Point
- Hueca Point
- Leeson Point
- Mathias Point
- Morrell Point
- Morris Point
- Pio Point
- Salamander Point
- Sarcophagus Point
- Scarlett Point
- Shoemaker Point
- Wasp Point
Islands of the South Sandwich Islands
- Bellingshausen Island
- Bristol Island
- Candlemas Island
- Candlemas Islands
- Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands
- Leskov Island
- Montagu Island
- Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands
- Southern Thule
- Thule Island
- Traversay Islands
- Vindication Island
- Visokoi Island
- Zavodovski Island
Rock formations of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Boot Rock
- Bristol Island
- Brothers Rocks
- Buddha Rock
- Castor Rock
- Cook Rock
- Longlow Rock
- Pollux Rock
- Santa Rock
- Saw Rock
- Thule Island
- Tomblin Rock
- Trousers Rock
Uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Annenkov Island
- Bellingshausen Island
- Black Rock, South Georgia
- Bristol Island
- Candlemas Island
- Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands
- Cooper Island
- Lazarev Island
- Leskov Island
- Montagu Island
- Pickersgill Islands
- Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands
- Shag Rocks (South Georgia)
- Southern Thule
- Thule Island
- Vindication Island
- Visokoi Island
- Welcome Islands
- Willis Islands
- Zavodovski Island
Volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Bellingshausen Island
- Bristol Island
- Candlemas Island
- Candlemas Islands
- Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands
- Leskov Island
- List of volcanoes in South Sandwich Islands
- Montagu Island
- Mount Andromeda (South Sandwich Islands)
- Mount Asphyxia
- Mount Belinda
- Mount Hodson
- Mount Michael
- Protector Shoal
- Quadrant Peak
- Southern Thule
- Thule Island
- Traversay Islands
- Vindication Island
- Visokoi Island
- Zavodovski Island
Volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean
- Bellingshausen Island
- Bristol Island
- Candlemas Island
- Candlemas Islands
- Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands
- Leskov Island
- Loki's Castle
- Montagu Island
- Mount Andromeda (South Sandwich Islands)
- Mount Michael
- Mount Scenery
- Pico Basilé
- Pico do Príncipe
- Príncipe
- Quadrant Peak
- Rockall
- São Tomé Island
- Southern Thule
- Thule Island
- Traversay Islands
- Trindade and Martim Vaz
- Vindication Island
- Visokoi Island
- Volcanoes of Iceland
- Volcanoes of Portugal
- Zavodovski Island
References
Also known as Freezland Rock, Fryer Point, Grindle Rock, Harker Point, Trulla Bluff, Turmoil Point, Wilson Rock.