Grass Island, South Georgia

Not to be confused with Grassholm, South Georgia.

Grass Island, South Georgia
Geography
Coordinates	54°9′S 36°40′W / 54.150°S 36.667°W / -54.150; -36.667Coordinates: 54°9′S 36°40′W / 54.150°S 36.667°W / -54.150; -36.667
Archipelago	South Georgia
Country
United Kingdom

Grass Island is a conspicuous island lying across the entrance to Stromness Harbour in Stromness Bay, South Georgia. It was known as "Mutton Island" as early as 1912, but since 1920 the name Grass Island has been consistently used.^[1]

On the 22 and 23 April 1982, after a British Special Boat Service team were driven back by snow at Cumberland East Bay, the Special Air Service was landed on Grass Island from HMS Antrim, and launched their attack on Argentine positions from here.^[2]

In 2000, the island became rat-free after a team from New Zealand helped in an extermination.

References

↑ "Grass Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-05-03.
↑ Bicheno, Hugh (2006) Razor's Edge: The Unofficial History of the Falklands War. London. Weidenfield & Nicholson. ISBN 978-0-7538-2186-2

This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Grass Island" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Capital: King Edward Point (Grytviken)

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Settlements / Whaling stations	Grytviken Godthul Husvik Leith Harbour Ocean Harbour Prince Olav Harbour Rosita Harbour Stromness Corbeta Uruguay base

South Georgia islands	Annenkov Island Bird Island Black Rock Black Rocks Clerke Rocks Cooper Island Grass Island Grassholm Kupriyanov Islands Pickersgill Islands Prion Island Saddle Island Shag Rocks South Georgia Trinity Island Welcome Islands Willis Islands

South Sandwich islands	Bellingshausen Bristol Candlemas Cook Leskov Montagu Saunders Thule Vindication Visokoi Zavodovski Traversay Islands

Landmarks	Allardyce Range Fortuna Glacier Gold Harbour Larsen Harbour Mount Baume Mount Belinda Mount Cunningham Mount Paget Mount Roots Peggotty Bluff Salisbury Plain Salvesen Range Southern Thule Thatcher Peninsula Grace Glacier Lucas Glacier Bay of Isles Point Abrahamsen Sheep Point Stromness Bay Cumberland Bay Possession Bay Sheer Point Busen Point

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Grass Island, South Georgia

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