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In 1823, James Weddell visited the islands, gave the archipelago its present name (after the Orkney Islands in the north of Scotland) and also renamed some of the islands. The South Orkney Islands are located at roughly the same latitude south as the Orkney Islands are north (60°S vs 59°N), although it is not known if this was a factor behind ...
Module:Location map/data/South Orkney Islands is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of South Orkney Islands. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Orkney islands map This is a list of Orkney islands in Scotland. The Orkney archipelago is located 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) north of mainland Scotland and comprises over 70 islands and skerries, of which 20 are permanently inhabited. In addition to the Orkney Mainland there are three groups of islands. The North and South Isles lie respectively north and south of Mainland. The Pentland Skerries ...
Map of Orkney showing main transport routes. Orkney is separated from the mainland of Scotland by the Pentland Firth, a ten-kilometre-wide (6 mi) seaway between Brough Ness on the island of South Ronaldsay and Duncansby Head in Caithness. [109]
Modul:Location map/data/South Orkney Islands; Modul:Location map/data/South Orkney Islands/dok; Usage on ca.wikipedia.org Illes Òrcades del Sud; Illa Laurie; Illa Powell; Usage on ceb.wikipedia.org Powell (pulo) Fredriksen; Laurie (pulo) Usage on cs.wikipedia.org Jižní Orkneje; Usage on da.wikipedia.org Sydorkney-øerne
Orkney Islands. Churchill Barrier 1, blocking Kirk Sound. Similarly, four Orkney islands are joined to the Orkney Mainland by a series of causeways known as the Churchill Barriers. They are: South Ronaldsay; Burray; Lamb Holm; Glimps Holm; Hunda is in turn connected to Burray via a causeway. South Walls and Hoy are connected by a causeway ...
The 60th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 60 degrees south of Earth's equatorial plane.No land lies on the parallel—it crosses nothing but ocean. The closest land is a group of rocks north of Coronation Island (Melson Rocks or Governor Islands) of the South Orkney Islands, which are about 54 km south of the parallel, and Thule Island and Cook Island of the South Sandwich ...
Geography of the South Orkney Islands — located in the Southern Ocean northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula, and claimed by both Argentine Antarctica (Argentina) and the British Antarctic Territory (UK).