Spit Point
Spit Point is the east tip of the 5-nautical-mile long Elephant Spit, a conspicuous spit at the eastern end of Heard Island. The feature was charted by early American sealers at Heard Island in the years following initiation of sealing operations there in 1855.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: Heard Island, Antarctica
- Also known as: “Southwest Beach Point”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Elephant Spit.
Elephant Spit
Locality
Elephant Spit is a 9 km long sand spit at the eastern end of subantarctic Heard Island, in the Australian territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, lying in the Southern Ocean on the Kerguelen Plateau about 450 km south-east of the Kerguelen Islands. Elephant Spit is situated 3½ km west of Spit Point.
Spit Point
- Category: headland
- Location: Heard Island and McDonald Islands
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Latitude
-53.10608° or 53° 6′ 22″ southLongitude
73.87513° or 73° 52′ 31″ eastOpen location code
3JRMVVVG+H3OpenStreetMap ID
node 2762336030OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityGeoNames ID
1547274Wikidata ID
Q7578255
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Spit Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Spit Point”
- Chinese: “斯皮特角”
- German: “Spit Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Spit Point”
- Swedish: “Spit Point (udde i Heard- och McDonaldöarna)”
- Swedish: “Spit Point”
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