Grass Island, South Georgia

Iceland Grass ( Grass Island) is an uninhabited island in the Stromness Bay, a bay on the north coast of the South Atlantic island of South Georgia.

Grass is located 2.5 kilometers from the former whaling station Stromness. The flat, crescent-shaped island is about 700 meters long ( north-south) and, on average, barely 400 meters wide.

Beginning of the 19th century was known the island still under the name Mutton Iceland ( mutton island); since around 1920, but is Grass Iceland 's official name.

Georgia: Annenkov | Bird | Clerke Rocks | Cooper | Grass | Kupriyanov | Pickersgill | Shag Rocks | Georgia | Willis | Welcome

The South Sandwich Islands: Bellingshausen | Bristol | Candlemas | Cook | Leskov | Montagu | Morrell ( Thule) | Saunders | Vindication | Visokoi | Zavodovski

  • Uninhabited Island
  • Island (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
  • Island (South America)
  • Island ( South Atlantic Ocean )
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