Mikhaylov Point
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- Type: Cape
- Description: cape in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Also known as: “Low Point” and “Punta Baja”
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.
Mikhaylov Point
- Category: landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-56.73184° or 56° 43′ 55″ southLongitude
-27.20073° or 27° 12′ 3″ westOpen location code
39MJ7Q9X+7POpenStreetMap ID
node 6705061190OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
3426379Wikidata ID
Q376310
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Mikhaylov Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mikhaylov Point”
- Chinese: “米哈伊洛夫角”
- German: “Mikhaylov Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mikhaylov Point”
- Spanish: “Punta Mijáilov”
- Spanish: “Punta Mikhaylov”
- Swedish: “Mikhaylov 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 “Mikhaylov Point”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.