Cato Point
Cato Point is a headland forming the southwest extremity of Bouvet Island. It was first charted in 1898 by a German expedition under Carl Chun. The Norwegian expedition under Captain Harald Horntvedt made a landing here from the Norvegia in December 1927; they applied the name.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Point
- Description: headland
- Also known as: “Catoodden” and “Seal Point”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Larsøya and Lykketoppen.
Larsøya
Islet
Larsøya, sometimes anglicized as Lars Island, is a rocky island, less than 0.2 nautical miles long, which lies just off the southwestern extremity of the island of Bouvetøya in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Lykketoppen
Peak
Lykketoppen, occasionally anglicized as Lykke Peak, is a snow-covered, 765-meter tall summit that surmounts the southwest part of Bouvetøya, standing 1 nautical mile east of Norvegia Point.
Christensen Glacier
Glacier
Following is a list of glaciers of Bouvet Island in Antarctica. This list may not reflect recently named glaciers in Bouvet Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cape Circoncision and Cape Valdivia.
Cape Circoncision
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Cape Circoncision is a peninsula on the north-western edge of subantarctic Bouvet Island. The small peninsula was sighted by the French naval exploration that was led by Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier on 1 January 1739, the Feast of the Circumcision day—thus the name. Cape Circoncision is situated 6 km north of Cato Point.
Cape Valdivia
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cape Valdivia is the northernmost point on Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. The subantarctic Bouvet Island is administered by Norway. Cape Valdivia lies in the centre of the island's highest point. Cape Valdivia is situated 7 km north of Cato Point.
Cato Point
- Categories: headland and landform
- Location: Bouvet Island
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Cato Point” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Cato lurmuturra”
- Bavarian: “Catoodden”
- Cebuano: “Cato Point”
- Cebuano: “Catoodden”
- Chinese: “卡托角”
- German: “Catoodden”
- Japanese: “カトー岬”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cato Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Catoodden”
- Spanish: “Catoodden”
- Spanish: “Punta de Cato”
- Swedish: “Cato Point”
- Swedish: “Catoodden”
- Swedish: “Catoudden”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cato Point”. Photo: Fguerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0.