Cape Wilson
The Bay of Isles is a bay 9 miles wide and 3 miles deep, lying between Cape Buller and Cape Wilson along the north coast of South Georgia. It was discovered in 1775 by a British expedition under James Cook and so named by him because numerous islands lie in the bay.- Cape
- …lies at an elevation of around 70 metres (240 feet)
- Description: cape in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Brutus Island
Islet
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Dinghy Point
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Cape Wilson
- Category: landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-54.0429° or 54° 2′ 35″ south
Longitude
-37.16953° or 37° 10′ 10″ west
Open location code
39Q4XR4J+R5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural = cape
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Cape Wilson” goes by many names.
Cape WilsonCebuano
威爾遜角Chinese
כף וילסוןHebrew
Cape Wilson i Sør-GeorgiaNorwegian Nynorsk
Cape Wilson (udde i Sydgeorgien och Sydsandwichöarna)Swedish
Cape Wilson, SydgeorgienSwedish
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