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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brutus Island and Hay Peak.
Brutus Island
Islet
Brutus Island is a small island lying near the center of Prince Olav Harbour on the north coast of South Georgia. The descriptive name Saddle Island was given for this feature, probably by a British expedition under Ernest Shackleton, 1921–22, but the same name is used elsewhere in the Antarctic; to avoid confusion a new name has been approved for this feature.
Hay Peak
Peak
Hay Peak is a peak rising to 660 metres at the head of Prince Olav Harbour in Cook Bay, South Georgia. It was charted and descriptively named "The Snow Pap" by the Discovery Investigations in 1929, but subsequently deleted.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Prince Olav Harbour and Dinghy Point.
Prince Olav Harbour
Locality
Prince Olav Harbour is a small harbour in the south west portion of Cook Bay, entered between Point Abrahamsen and Sheep Point, along the north coast of South Georgia.
Dinghy Point
Locality
Prince Olav Harbour is a small harbour in the south west portion of Cook Bay, entered between Point Abrahamsen and Sheep Point, along the north coast of South Georgia.
Sheep Point
Locality
Prince Olav Harbour is a small harbour in the south west portion of Cook Bay, entered between Point Abrahamsen and Sheep Point, along the north coast of South Georgia.
Cape Wilson
- 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
-54.0429° or 54° 2′ 35″ southLongitude
-37.16953° or 37° 10′ 10″ westElevation
73 metres (240 feet)Open location code
39Q4XR4J+R5OpenStreetMap ID
node 9128076601OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Cape Wilson” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cape Wilson”
- Chinese: “威爾遜角”
- German: “Kap Wilson”
- Hebrew: “כף וילסון”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cape Wilson i Sør-Georgia”
- Portuguese: “Cabo Wilson”
- Spanish: “Cabo Wilson”
- Swedish: “Cape Wilson (udde i Sydgeorgien och Sydsandwichöarna)”
- Swedish: “Cape Wilson, Sydgeorgien”
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