Knob Point
Vindication Island is a small uninhabited island of the Candlemas Islands 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Cape
- Description: southwesternmost point of Vindication Island in the South Sandwich Islands
- Also known as: “Knob Point (South Sandwich Islands)”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Quadrant Peak and Vindication Island.
Quadrant Peak
Peak
Quadrant Peak is a peak forming the summit of Vindication Island, South Sandwich Islands. The peak forms a narrow ridge above the uniform slopes of the original volcanic cone, and is a quadrant of what was probably once a circular mass cone.
Vindication Island
Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Vindication Island is a small uninhabited island of the Candlemas Islands 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.
Buddha Rock
Islet
Buddha Rock is a rock, 35 metres high, lying 0.3 nautical miles west of Vindication Island in the South Sandwich Islands. It was charted and named in 1930 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the RSS Discovery II.
Knob Point
- Category: landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-57.12049° or 57° 7′ 14″ southLongitude
-26.83072° or 26° 49′ 51″ westOpen location code
39JMV5H9+RPOpenStreetMap ID
node 9025691590OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
3426410Wikidata ID
Q15238670
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Knob Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Knob Point”
- Chinese: “諾布角”
- German: “Knob Point”
- Spanish: “Punta Boton”
- Spanish: “Punta Botón”
- Swedish: “Knob 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 “Knob Point”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.