Cape Vahsel
Cape Vahsel is a headland forming the eastern tip of South Georgia. It was roughly charted by Captain James Cook in 1775, remapped by the Second German Antarctic Expedition under Wilhelm Filchner, 1911–12, and named for Captain Richard Vahsel, master of the expedition ship Deutschland.- Cape
- Description: headland in South Georgia
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Cape Vahsel
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- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-54.76396° or 54° 45′ 50″ south
Longitude
-35.7997° or 35° 47′ 59″ west
Open location code
39Q666P2+C4
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Cape Vahsel” goes by many names.
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