Inline videos. See also:Category: Articles with embedded Videos..

Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands

From Biocrawler, the free encyclopedia.

Saunders Island location
Enlarge
Saunders Island location
Orthographic projection centred over the South Sandwich Islands
Enlarge
Orthographic projection centred over the South Sandwich Islands

Saunders Island (57°47′ S 026°27′ W (http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=57_47_S_026_27_W_)) is an arc-shaped island 8.8 km (5.5 mi) long, lying between Candlemas Island and Montagu Island in the South Sandwich Islands. Discovered in 1775 by Captain James Cook, who named it for Sir Charles Saunders, First Lord of the Admiralty. Charted in greater detail by Bellingshausen in 1819 and in 1930 by DI personnel on the Discovery II.

 This Antarctica or Subantarctic islands location article is a stub. You can help Biocrawler by expanding it (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Saunders_Island%2C_South_Sandwich_Islands&action=edit).
This British overseas territory location article is a stub. You can help Biocrawler by expanding it (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Saunders_Island%2C_South_Sandwich_Islands&action=edit).
Retrieved from "http://www.biocrawler.com/encyclopedia/Saunders_Island%2C_South_Sandwich_Islands"
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) Saunders_Island,_South_Sandwich_Islands (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saunders_Island,_South_Sandwich_Islands) version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saunders_Island,_South_Sandwich_Islands&action=history) GNU Free Documentation Lizenz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License) CC-by-sa (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/)
Personal tools
Google Search
Google
Web
biocrawler.com