Jeffries Point
Jeffries Point is a cape in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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
Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
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″ southLongitude
-27.16325° or 27° 9′ 48″ westElevation
210 metres (689 feet)Open location code
39GJGRQP+PPOpenStreetMap ID
node 12241413376OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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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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