Wordie Point
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Visokoi Island and Mount Hodson.
Visokoi Island
Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Visokoi Island is an uninhabited volcanic island and one the three Traversay Islands that constitute a subgroup of the South Sandwich Islands, in the Southern Ocean.
Mount Hodson
Volcano
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Mount Hodson is an ice-covered stratovolcano and the highest point on Visokoi Island, South Sandwich Islands. It might have erupted in 1830 and 1930, and the summit usually steams.
Wordie Point
- Type: Cape
- Description: cape in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Category: landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-56.72957° or 56° 43′ 46″ southLongitude
-27.24277° or 27° 14′ 34″ westOpen location code
39MJ7QC4+5VOpenStreetMap ID
node 2384495796OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
3426226Wikidata ID
Q376585
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Wordie Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wordie Point”
- Chinese: “沃迪角”
- German: “Wordie Point”
- Japanese: “ワーディー岬 (ビソコイ島)”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wordie Point”
- Spanish: “Punta Wordie”
- Swedish: “Wordie Point”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Wordie Point”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.