Pearson Point
Bird Island is 4.8 kilometres long and 800 metres wide, separated from the western end of South Georgia by Bird Sound. It is part of the British overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, also claimed by Argentina as part of Tierra del Fuego province.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Cape
- Description: cape in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Also known as: “Bird Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Molly Hill and Stejneger Peak.
Molly Hill
Peak
Molly Hill is a hill between Evermann Cove and Johnson Cove on western Bird Island, South Georgia, an island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. The name derives from the black-browed albatross or "mollymawk" which breeds on the hill in large numbers.
Stejneger Peak
Peak
Stejneger Peak is a conspicuous rocky peak, 190 m, at the head of Evermann Cove on Bird Island, South Georgia. Surveyed by the South Georgia Biological Expedition, 1958–59.
Elliott Rock
Elliott Rock is a rock lying in Stewart Strait, close west of Bird Island, off the west end of South Georgia. It was positioned by Discovery Investigations personnel under Lieutenant Commander J.M.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pio Point and Cordall Stacks.
Pio Point
Locality
Pio Point is a point forming the north side of the entrance to Johnson Cove at the west end of Bird Island, South Georgia. Roughly charted by DI personnel on the Discovery in the period 1926-30 and surveyed by HMS Owen in 1960–61.
Cordall Stacks
Locality
The Cordall Stacks are two conspicuous rock stacks, the eastern one joined to Bird Island, South Georgia, by a low isthmus, lying on the northwest side of the island 0.3 nautical miles northwest of Jordan Cove.
Heron Passage
Locality
The Willis Islands are a small archipelago to the west of South Georgia Island in the South Georgia Islands. They are 2 miles west of Bird Island, separated by the Stewart Strait.
Pearson Point
- Category: landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-54.02146° or 54° 1′ 17″ southLongitude
-38.08021° or 38° 4′ 49″ westOpen location code
39Q3XWH9+CWOpenStreetMap ID
node 3384374683OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
3426344Wikidata ID
Q335648
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Pearson Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Pearson Point (punta sa South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)”
- Cebuano: “Pearson Point”
- Chinese: “皮爾遜角”
- German: “Pearson Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pearson Point”
- Swedish: “Pearson Point (udde i Sydgeorgien och Sydsandwichöarna)”
- Swedish: “Pearson 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 “Pearson Point”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.