Coal Island, South Georgia

Coordinates: 54°2′S 37°57′W / 54.033°S 37.950°W

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Coal Island (54°2′S 37°57′W / 54.033°S 37.950°W / -54.033; -37.950) is a small tussock-covered island with off-lying rocks marking the west side of the entrance to

Discovery during the period 1926–30, and by HMS Owen in 1960–61. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee

in 1963 in association with Coal Harbor.

See also

List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

References

This article incorporates public domain material from "Coal Island, South Georgia". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Capital: King Edward Point

General

Settlements / Whaling stations

South Georgia islands

South Sandwich Islands

Bristol (incl. Grindle Rock, Wilson Rock, Freezland Rock)
Montagu
Saunders

Candlemas Islands	Candlemas Vindication

Traversay Islands	Leskov Visokoi Zavodovski

Southern Thule	Bellingshausen Cook Thule (including Twitcher Rock)

Seamounts

Landmarks

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