Saddle Island is 1.98 km (1.2 mi) long and 980 metres (1,071.7 yd) wide, situated on the south side of the entrance to Wilson Harbour

Wilson Harbour

Wilson Harbour is a bay 1.5 miles wide and 3 miles long, between Kade Point and Cape Demidov along the south coast of South Georgia. This coast was roughly charted by a Russian expedition under Bellingshausen in 1819. Wilson Harbour was named about 1912, probably for J. Innes Wilson, who sketched...

 on the west coast of South Georgia Island

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is a British overseas territory and overseas territory of the European Union in the southern Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote and inhospitable collection of islands, consisting of South Georgia and a chain of smaller islands, known as the South Sandwich...

 in the Antarctic

Antarctic

The Antarctic is the region around the Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica and the ice shelves, waters and island territories in the Southern Ocean situated south of the Antarctic Convergence...

. The island is separated from the mainland of South Georgia by a 280 metres (306.2 yd) wide passage.

Location

Saddle Island is located at 54°08′25"S 37°44′57"W which is 18.9 km (11.7 mi) southeast of Cape Paryadin

Cape Paryadin

Cape Paryadin is a headland which forms the southernmost point of the west tip of South Georgia. It was discovered in 1775 by a British expedition under James Cook. The cape was resighted in 1819 by a Russian expedition under Bellingshausen, who named it for Yakov Poryadin, navigator on the...

, 29.1 km (18.1 mi) west of Peggotty Bluff

Peggotty Bluff

Peggotty Bluff or Peggotty Camp, is a bluff on the north side and near the head of King Haakon Bay, South Georgia.-History:In 1916, Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition party from Elephant Island established a camp, using the upturned James Caird near the head of King Haakon Bay...

 and 26.3 km (16.3 mi) northwest of Cape Nuñez

Cape Nuñez

Cape Nuñez is a headland forming the southwest extremity of Nuñez Peninsula on the south coast of South Georgia. The name dates back to at least 1912 and was probably given by whalers who frequented this coast....

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See also

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
• List of Antarctic islands north of 60° S

Map

• South Georgia. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1958.

External links

• Saddle Island. Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels: Data Portal.
• J.P. Croxall. Distribution and population changes in the wandering albatross Diomedea Exulans at South Georgia. British Antarctic Survey, 1979.