Jeffries Point

Jeffries Point is a cape in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Holdgate and Cook Island.

Mount Holdgate

Peak

Photo: NASA, Public domain.

Mount Holdgate is a prominent mountain, 960 metres high, with steep icefalls and rock buttresses which provides a clear landmark at the southeast end of Cook Island in the South Sandwich Islands.

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.

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.

Jeffries Point

Type: Cape
Description: cape in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Category: landform
Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
View on OpenStreetMap

Latitude

-59.46063° or 59° 27′ 38″ south

Longitude

-27.16325° or 27° 9′ 48″ west

Elevation

210 metres (689 feet)

Open location code

39GJGRQP+PP

OpenStreetMap ID

node 12241413376

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=cape

GeoNames ID

3426424

Wikidata ID

Q375948

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Jeffries Point” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Jeffries Point”
Chinese: “傑弗里斯角”
German: “Jeffries Point”
Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jeffries Point”
Spanish: “Punta Jeffries”
Swedish: “Jeffries Point”

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