Survey Isthmus

Survey Isthmus

Survey Isthmus (coord|54|2|S|37|58|W|) is a narrow isthmus about 39 m high separating Elsehul and Undine Harbor near the west end of South Georgia. The name appears to first have been used on a 1931 British Admiralty chart.


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