Cosmonaut Photos: South Georgia Island & Antarctica | International Space Station
South Georgia island
The Antarctic Peninsula
These images were shared by Expedition 74 Station Commander and Cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Russia aboard the International Space Station: "A couple more photos of summer (yes, it's high summer in the Southern Hemisphere right now) Antarctica."
First Image: South Georgia is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around 1,400 kilometers (870 mi) east of the Falkland Islands. Stretching in the east–west direction, South Georgia is around 170 kilometers (106 mi) long and has a maximum width of 35 kilometers (22 mi). The terrain is mountainous, with the central ridge rising to 2,935 meters (9,629 ft) at Mount Paget. The northern coast is indented with numerous bays and fjords, serving as harbors.
Second Image: The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica. The Antarctic Peninsula is part of the larger peninsula of West Antarctica, protruding 1,300 kilometers (810 miles) from a line between Cape Adams (Weddell Sea) and a point on the mainland south of the Eklund Islands. Beneath the ice sheet that covers it, the Antarctic Peninsula consists of a string of bedrock islands; these are separated by deep channels whose bottoms lie at depths considerably below current sea level. They are joined by a grounded ice sheet. Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost tip of South America, is about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) away across the Drake Passage. The Antarctic Peninsula is 522,000 square kilometers (202,000 sq mi) in area and is currently eighty-percent ice-covered.
Expedition 74 Crew
Station Commander: Sergey-Kud Sverchkov (Russia)
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineer: Sergei Mikaev
NASA Flight Engineer: Chris Williams
An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.
Image Credit: Roscosmos/S. Kud Sverchkov
Date: Jan. 28, 2026
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