Isaacson Point
Bellingshausen Island is one of the most southerly islands of the South Sandwich Islands, close to Thule Island and Cook Island, and forming part of the Southern Thule group.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bellingshausen Island and Basilisk Peak.
Bellingshausen Island
Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Bellingshausen Island is one of the most southerly islands of the South Sandwich Islands, close to Thule Island and Cook Island, and forming part of the Southern Thule group.
Basilisk Peak
Peak
Basilisk Peak is, at 255 metres, the highest peak marking the crater rim of Bellingshausen Island, South Sandwich Islands. The name as applied by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971 "marks the aura of this savage cliff which falls abruptly into a deep and steaming crater where the basilisk of legend might properly have his den."…
Isaacson Point
- Type: Cape
- Description: cape in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Category: landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-59.42089° or 59° 25′ 15″ southLongitude
-27.07661° or 27° 4′ 36″ westOpen location code
39GJHWHF+J9OpenStreetMap ID
node 6696264051OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
3426428Wikidata ID
Q375931
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Isaacson Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Isaacson Point”
- Chinese: “艾薩克森角”
- German: “Isaacson Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Isaacson Point”
- Spanish: “Punta Isaacson”
- Swedish: “Isaacson 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 “Isaacson Point”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.