Sulphur Point
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- Type: Cape
- Description: cape in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Also known as: “West Bluff”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Visokoi Island and Mount Hodson.
Visokoi Island
Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Visokoi Island is an uninhabited volcanic island and one the three Traversay Islands that constitute a subgroup of the South Sandwich Islands, in the Southern Ocean.
Mount Hodson
Volcano
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Mount Hodson is an ice-covered stratovolcano and the highest point on Visokoi Island, South Sandwich Islands. It might have erupted in 1830 and 1930, and the summit usually steams.
Sulphur Point
- Category: landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-56.70591° or 56° 42′ 21″ southLongitude
-27.25864° or 27° 15′ 31″ westOpen location code
39MJ7PVR+JGOpenStreetMap ID
node 6705060946OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
3426264Wikidata ID
Q376600
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Sulphur Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sulphur Point (punta sa South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)”
- Cebuano: “Sulphur Point”
- Chinese: “硫角”
- German: “Sulphur Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sulphur Point”
- Spanish: “Punta Sulfuro”
- Swedish: “Sulphur Point (udde i Sydgeorgien och Sydsandwichöarna)”
- Swedish: “Sulphur Point”
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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 “Sulphur Point”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.