Morse Point
Morse Point is a point marking the east side of the entrance of Antarctic Bay on the north coast of South Georgia. The point appears roughly charted on maps dating back to about 1900; it was roughly surveyed by Discovery Investigations personnel in the period 1925–31, and resurveyed by the South Georgia Survey in 1951–52.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Woodward.
Mount Woodward
Peak
Mount Woodward is a mountain, 770 m, standing 1.5 miles east of the mouth of Antarctic Bay on the north coast of South Georgia. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951–57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Roswall Woodward, of New Haven, Connecticut, who in 1790 commanded one of the first two American sealing vessels to visit South Georgia. Mount Woodward is situated 3½ km east of Morse Point.
Morse Point
- Type: Locality
- Description: cape in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Category: cape
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-54.08605° or 54° 5′ 10″ southLongitude
-36.94271° or 36° 56′ 34″ westElevation
1 metre (3 feet)Open location code
39Q5W374+HWOpenStreetMap ID
node 9128777032OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Morse Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Morse Point (punta)”
- Cebuano: “Morse Point”
- Chinese: “莫爾斯角”
- German: “Morse Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Morse Point”
- Spanish: “Punta Morse”
- Swedish: “Morse Point (udde)”
- Swedish: “Morse Point”
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