Horsburgh Point
Horsburgh Point is a point, 3.4 nautical miles northwest of Scarlett Point, on the southwest side of Montagu Island in the South Sandwich Islands. It was charted in 1930 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II, who named it for H.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Cape
- Description: cape in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Also known as: “Horsburgh point”
Horsburgh Point
- Category: landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-58.48073° or 58° 28′ 51″ southLongitude
-26.44435° or 26° 26′ 40″ westElevation
1 metre (3 feet)Open location code
39HMGH94+P7OpenStreetMap ID
node 12242041844OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Horsburgh Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Horsburgh Point”
- Chinese: “霍斯堡角”
- German: “Horsburgh Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Horsburgh Point”
- Spanish: “Punta Horsburgh”
- Swedish: “Horsburgh Point”
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