Isaacson Point

Bellingshausen Island is one of the most southerly islands of the South Sandwich Islands, close to and , and forming part of the group.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Bellingshausen Island and Basilisk Peak.

Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
is one of the most southerly islands of the South Sandwich Islands, close to and , and forming part of the group.

Peak
is, at 255 metres, the highest peak marking the crater rim of , 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

Latitude
-59.42089° or 59° 25′ 15″ south
Longitude
-27.07661° or 27° 4′ 36″ west
Open location code
39GJHWHF+J9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6696264051
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cape
Geo­Names ID
3426428
Wiki­data ID
Q375931
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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.