Herd Point
Herd Point is a point which forms the west side of Ferguson Bay at the south end of Thule Island, in the South Sandwich Islands. It was roughly charted by a Russian expedition under Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen in 1819–20.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gastón Cuello, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Thule Island and Mount Larsen.
Thule Island
Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Thule Island, also called Morrell Island, is one of the southernmost of the South Sandwich Islands, part of the grouping known as Southern Thule. 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.
Mount Larsen
Volcano
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Mount Larsen is a mountain, 710 metres high, situated in the east-central portion of Thule Island 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.
Twitcher Rock
Islet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Thule Island, also called Morrell Island, is one of the southernmost of the South Sandwich Islands, part of the grouping known as Southern Thule. 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.
Corbeta Uruguay base
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Corbeta Uruguay base was an Argentine military outpost established in November 1976 on Thule Island, Southern Thule, 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
- 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
-59.4608° or 59° 27′ 39″ southLongitude
-27.33933° or 27° 20′ 22″ westOpen location code
39GJGMQ6+M7OpenStreetMap ID
node 12241339941OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
3426448Wikidata ID
Q393965
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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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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 “Herd Point”. Photo: Gastón Cuello, CC BY-SA 4.0.