Weddell Point
Weddell Point is a low, tussock-covered point forming the east side of the entrance to Schlieper Bay, on the south coast and near the west end of South Georgia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Scree Gap.
Scree Gap
Mountain saddle
Scree Gap is a gap between Schlieper Bay and Church Bay, near the west end of South Georgia. The name is descriptive and was given by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee following surveys by the SGS in the period 1951–57.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chaplin Head and Low Rock Point.
Chaplin Head
Locality
Undine Harbour is a small bay at the head of the embayment between Cape Paryadin and Cape Chaplin on the south coast of South Georgia.
Low Rock Point
Locality
Low Rock Point is a point forming the west side of the entrance to Church Bay, near the west end of the north coast of South Georgia. It was charted by Discovery Investigations personnel in 1926–30, and so named because a low rock lies off the point.
Saluta Rocks
Locality
Undine Harbour is a small bay at the head of the embayment between Cape Paryadin and Cape Chaplin on the south coast of South Georgia.
Weddell Point
- Type: Cape
- Also known as: “Cape Weddell”
- Categories: point and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-54.05882° or 54° 3′ 32″ southLongitude
-37.80479° or 37° 48′ 17″ westElevation
9 metres (30 feet)Open location code
39Q4W5RW+F3OpenStreetMap ID
node 5329950753OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Weddell Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Weddell Point”
- Chinese: “威德爾角”
- German: “Weddell Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Weddell Point”
- Portuguese: “Ponta Weddell”
- Portuguese: “Ponto Weddell”
- Swedish: “Weddell Point (udde i Sydgeorgien och Sydsandwichöarna)”
- Swedish: “Weddell Point”
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