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King George Island (South Shetland Islands) King George Island (Argentinian Spanish: Isla 25 de Mayo, Chilean Spanish: Isla Rey Jorge, Russian: Ватерло́о Vaterloo) is the largest of the South Shetland Islands, lying 120 km (75 miles) off the coast of Antarctica in the Southern Ocean. The island was named after King George III.
The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of 3,687 km 2 (1,424 sq mi). They lie about 120 kilometres (65 nautical miles) north of the Antarctic Peninsula, [1] and between 430 and 900 km (230 and 485 nmi) southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands.
Admiralty Bay is an irregular bay, 8 km (5 mi) wide at its entrance between Demay Point and Martins Head, indenting the southern coast of King George Island for 16 km (10 mi), in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. The name appears on a map of 1822 by Captain George Powell, a British sailor, and is now established in international usage.
King George Bay (Antarctica) Coordinates: 62°6′S 58°5′W. King George Bay ( 62°6′S 58°5′W) is a bay indenting the south coast of King George Island for 6 nautical miles (11 km) between Lions Rump and Turret Point, in the South Shetland Islands. It was named on 24 January 1820 after the then-reigning sovereign of the United Kingdom ...
King George Island: 1,383.8: 655 ... Johnson Island (Antarctica)- within the Abbot Ice Shelf about 14 nautical miles (26 km) SE of Dustin Island; Joinville Island group.
Cape Melville, is a low-lying, ice-free headland at the eastern end of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. Some 388 ha of the site has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a large breeding colony of about 16 000 pairs of chinstrap penguins.
East Antarctica 10,236 feet (3,120 m) Ice: Machu Picchu ... King George Island 11/29 4,232 feet (1,290 m) Gravel ...
Location of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands. Map of King George Island showing location of Artigas Base. The General Artigas Station (Spanish: Base Científica Antártica Artigas), also referred to as the Artigas Base is the larger of the two Uruguayan scientific research stations in Antarctica, the other one being Elichiribehety Base.