Islands
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands

Shrove Point

Candlemas Island is a small uninhabited island of the in the South Sandwich Islands. It is one of about a dozen islands that make up the South Sandwich island arc, a chain of volcanoes in the Southern Ocean that was discovered in 1775 by James Cook.
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  • Type: Cape
  • Description: cape in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
  • Also known as: “Mys Shrov”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Andromeda and Mount Perseus.

Peak
is, at 550 metres, the higher and more southerly of the twin ice domes, this one marking the summit of , South Sandwich Islands.

Peak
is the lower and more northerly of twin ice domes in the east part of , South Sandwich Islands. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971 in association with nearby .

is a rock, 30 metres high, which lies 0.1 nautical miles off the southeast side of in the South Sandwich Islands. It was charted and named by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II in 1930.

Shrove Point

Latitude
-57.11079° or 57° 6′ 39″ south
Longitude
-26.68912° or 26° 41′ 21″ west
Open location code
39JMV8Q6+M9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 12241213291
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cape
Geo­Names ID
3426285
Wiki­data ID
Q375927
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Satellite Map

Discover Shrove Point from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Shrove Point” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Shrove Point”
  • Chinese: “什羅夫角”
  • German: “Shrove Point”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shrove Point”
  • Spanish: “Punta Cuencas”
  • Swedish: “Shrove Point”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Gorgon Pool and Chimaera Flats.

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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 “Shrove Point”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.