Wordie Point

Visokoi Island is an uninhabited volcanic island and one the three that constitute a subgroup of the South Sandwich Islands, in the Southern Ocean.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Visokoi Island and Mount Hodson.

Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
is an uninhabited volcanic island and one the three that constitute a subgroup of the South Sandwich Islands, in the Southern Ocean.

Volcano
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
is an ice-covered stratovolcano and the highest point on , South Sandwich Islands. It might have erupted in 1830 and 1930, and the summit usually steams.

Wordie Point

Latitude
-56.72957° or 56° 43′ 46″ south
Longitude
-27.24277° or 27° 14′ 34″ west
Open location code
39MJ7QC4+5V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2384495796
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cape
Geo­Names ID
3426226
Wiki­data ID
Q376585
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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.