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Places worth the detour in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Detourmap lists 72 places in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, United Kingdom, across 1 kind of detour. Best known: South Georgia. 59 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature72
Places
72
Little known
59 of 72
Share of United Kingdom
2%

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 72

All 72, best known first.

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England1,435 Scotland922 Wales241 Northern Ireland32

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands?

South Georgia. Island in the South Atlantic. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands?

72: 72 nature & landscapes. 59 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.

What counts as South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is a first-level division of United Kingdom, the same level as a state or a province.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.