Herd Point

Herd Point is a point which forms the west side of at the south end of , in the South Sandwich Islands. It was roughly charted by a Russian expedition under Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen in 1819–20.
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Photo: Gastón Cuello, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Thule Island and Mount Larsen.

Island
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, also called Morrell Island, is one of the southernmost of the South Sandwich Islands, part of the grouping known as . It is named, on account of its remote location, after the mythical land of Thule, said by ancient geographers to lie at the extreme end of the Earth.

Volcano
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is a mountain, 710 metres high, situated in the east-central portion of in the South Sandwich Islands. It was charted in 1930 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II who named it for Captain C.A. Larsen.

Islet
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Thule Island, also called Morrell Island, is one of the southernmost of the South Sandwich Islands, part of the grouping known as . It is named, on account of its remote location, after the mythical land of Thule, said by ancient geographers to lie at the extreme end of the Earth.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Corbeta Uruguay base.

Locality
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was an Argentine military outpost established in November 1976 on , , in the South Sandwich Islands. It was vacated and mostly demolished in 1982 following Britain's victory against Argentina in the Falklands War.

Herd Point

Latitude
-59.4608° or 59° 27′ 39″ south
Longitude
-27.33933° or 27° 20′ 22″ west
Open location code
39GJGMQ6+M7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 12241339941
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cape
Geo­Names ID
3426448
Wiki­data ID
Q393965
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Satellite Map

Discover Herd Point from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Herd Point” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Herd Point”
  • Chinese: “赫德角”
  • German: “Herd Point”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Herd Point”
  • Portuguese: “Punta Herd”
  • Spanish: “Punta Herd”
  • Swedish: “Herd Point”

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