Swell Point
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- Type: Cape
- Description: cape in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Also known as: “Punta Mar Tendida”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cook Island and Mount Holdgate.
Cook Island
Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Cook Island is the central and largest island of the Southern Thule island group, part of the South Sandwich Islands in the far south Atlantic Ocean. Southern Thule was discovered by a British expedition under Captain James Cook in 1775.
Mount Holdgate
Peak
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Mount Holdgate is a prominent mountain, 960 metres high, with steep icefalls and rock buttresses which provides a clear landmark at the southeast end of Cook Island in the South Sandwich Islands.
Mount Harmer
Peak
Mount Harmer is an ice-covered peak, 1,115 metres high, in the north-central portion of Cook Island, in the South Sandwich Islands. It was charted in 1930 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II, who named it for Sir Sidney F.
Swell Point
- Category: landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-59.44438° or 59° 26′ 40″ southLongitude
-27.13216° or 27° 7′ 56″ westOpen location code
39GJHV49+64OpenStreetMap ID
node 12241413374OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
3426261Wikidata ID
Q375965
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Swell Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Swell Point”
- Chinese: “斯韋爾角”
- German: “Dünungsspitze”
- German: “Swell Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Swell Point”
- Spanish: “Punta mar tendida”
- Spanish: “Punta Mar Tendido”
- Spanish: “Punta Swell”
- Swedish: “Swell Point”
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Highlights include Bellingshausen Island and Basilisk Peak.
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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 “Swell Point”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.