South america south georgia map. Map of south georgia and travel information about south georgia brought to you by lonely planet. Lonely planets guide to south georgia. South georgia mountainous barren island in the south atlantic ocean 800 miles 1300 km east southeast of the falkland islands islas malvinas.
Best in travel 2020. Map of south america. South america is also home to the atacama desert the driest desert in the world.
A map showing the physical features of south america. 2500x2941 770 kb go to map. 2000x2353 550 kb go to map.
Physical map of south america. Map of south america with countries and capitals. South georgia was named the isle of georgia in 1775 by captain james cook in honor of british king george iii.
Go back to see more maps of georgia us. 3203x3916 472 mb go to map. The map is a portion of a larger world map created by the central intelligence agency using robinson projection.
South georgia and the south sandwich islands sgssi is a british overseas territory in the southern atlantic oceanit is a remote and inhospitable collection of islands consisting of south georgia and a chain of smaller islands known as the south sandwich islands. 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 islandsit is located 1390 km southeast of the falkland islands and 2150 km from south america. The andes mountain range dominates south americas landscape.
South georgia is 165 kilometres 103 mi long and 35 kilometres 22 mi wide and is by far the largest island in the territory. This is a political map of south america which shows the countries of south america along with capital cities major cities islands oceans seas and gulfs. Discover sights restaurants entertainment and hotels.
This map shows cities towns interstate highways us. The word south was later added to distinguish these islands from the other sandwich islands now. South america time zone map.
Political map of south america. Highways state highways rivers lakes national forests state parks in southern georgia. The explorer also discovered the sandwich islands group that year which he named sandwich land after john montagu the earl of sandwich and first lord of the admiralty.
The island is part of the british overseas territory of south georgia and the south sandwich islands although argentina also claims the territory. 990x948 289 kb go to map. Political map of south america.
South america is almost twice as big as europe by land area and is marginally larger than russia. Art and culture.