The South Shetland Islands lie within the oceanic geocryological zone of the Antarctic. King George Island, one of the largest islands of the archipelago, presents a variety of landforms of cryogenic‐denudational, nival, solifluction and cryostructural types. A distinct pattern can be discerned in the distribution of these landforms, controlled by geomorphology, climate and geocryological features. The cryogenic landforms most typical of the island are described; they include cryogenic‐denudational and solifluction terraces, nivation cirques, sorted polygons and circles and linear microforms produced by frost‐heaving on slopes.