Harrison Point
Harrison Point is a point marked by a string of off-lying rocks, lying 1.5 nautical miles west of Busen Point on the south side of Stromness Bay on the island of South Georgia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: cape in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Also known as: “Matthews Point”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Justa Peak and Jason Peak.
Justa Peak
Peak
Justa Peak is a peak, 495 metres high, lying southwest of Busen Point on the north coast of South Georgia. The name appears to be first used on a 1929 British Admiralty chart.
Jason Peak
Peak
Jason Peak is a peak, 675 metres high, lying 1 mile west of Jason Harbour on the north coast of South Georgia. The name appears to be first used on a 1929 British Admiralty chart. Jason Peak is situated 3 km south of Harrison Point.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Leith Harbour and Husvik.
Leith Harbour
Village
Photo: Harley D. Nygren, Public domain.
Leith Harbour, also known as Port Leith, was a whaling station on the northeast coast of South Georgia, established and operated by Christian Salvesen Ltd, Edinburgh. Leith Harbour is situated 6 km northwest of Harrison Point.
Husvik
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Husvik is a former whaling station on the north-central coast of South Georgia Island. It was one of three such stations in Stromness Bay, the other two being Stromness and Leith Harbour. Husvik is situated 7 km west of Harrison Point.
Harrison Point
- Category: cape
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-54.16705° or 54° 10′ 1″ southLongitude
-36.60275° or 36° 36′ 10″ westOpen location code
39Q5R9MW+5VOpenStreetMap ID
node 9097325335OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityGeoNames ID
3426454Wikidata ID
Q313259
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Harrison Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Harrison Point”
- Chinese: “哈里森角”
- German: “Harrison Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Harrison Point”
- Swedish: “Harrison Point (udde i Sydgeorgien och Sydsandwichöarna)”
- Swedish: “Harrison 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 “Harrison Point”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.