Isaacson Point
Bellingshausen Island is a small, uninhabited volcanic island in the Southern Thule group of the South Sandwich Islands, in the South Atlantic Ocean. It lies approximately 7.6 kilometres northeast of Cook Island and 16 kilometres east of Thule Island.Places of Interest
Highlights include Bellingshausen Island and Basilisk Peak.
Bellingshausen Island
Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Bellingshausen Island is a small, uninhabited volcanic island in the Southern Thule group of the South Sandwich Islands, in the South Atlantic Ocean. It lies approximately 7.6 kilometres northeast of Cook Island and 16 kilometres east of Thule Island.
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
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
Discover Isaacson Point from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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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