Grassholm is an island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Frida Hole

Frida Hole

Frida Hole is a small bay lying 0.5 nautical miles southeast of Coal Harbor, along the south coast and near the west end of South Georgia. Probably named by early whalers or sealers who used the bay as an anchorage....

, along the south coast and near the west end of South Georgia. The name "Em Island" was given for this feature, probably by DI

Discovery Investigations

The Discovery Investigations were a series of scientific cruises and shore-based investigations into the biology of whales in the Southern Ocean. They were funded by the British Colonial Office and organised by the Discovery Committee in London, which was formed in 1918...

 personnel who surveyed this coast in 1926. The South Georgia Survey, 1951-52, reported that this feature is known to whalers and sealers as "Grassholmen," and that Em Island is unknown locally. The indefinite form of the name has been approved, without the suffix -en which denotes the definite article

Definite Article

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 in North Germanic languages

North Germanic languages

The North Germanic languages or Scandinavian languages, the languages of Scandinavians, make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages, a sub-family of the Indo-European languages, along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages...

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See also

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