Reef Point
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cook Island and Twitcher Rock.
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.
Twitcher Rock
Islet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Thule Island, also called Morrell Island, is one of the southernmost of the South Sandwich Islands, part of the grouping known as Southern Thule. It is named, on account of its remote location, after the mythical land of Thule, said by ancient geographers to lie at the extreme end of the Earth.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Corbeta Uruguay base.
Corbeta Uruguay base
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Corbeta Uruguay base was an Argentine military outpost established in November 1976 on Thule Island, Southern Thule, in the South Sandwich Islands. It was vacated and mostly demolished in 1982 following Britain's victory against Argentina in the Falklands War.
Reef Point
- Type: Cape
- Description: cape in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Category: landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-59.45099° or 59° 27′ 4″ southLongitude
-27.24594° or 27° 14′ 45″ westElevation
44 metres (144 feet)Open location code
39GJGQX3+JJOpenStreetMap ID
node 12241427210OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Reef Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Reef Point”
- Chinese: “里夫角”
- German: “Reef Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Reef Point”
- Spanish: “Punta Arrecife”
- Swedish: “Reef 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 “Reef Point”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.