Harper Point
Harper Point is a point just north of Blackstone Plain forming the north end of Saunders Island in the South Sandwich Islands. It was charted in 1930 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II and named for F.H.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Blackstone Plain.
Blackstone Plain
Blackstone Plain is a small plain just south of Harper Point at the north end of Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands. This lowland feature is made up of dark basaltic lavas and, in 1964, personnel from HMS Protector found it to be the only area of the island free from ice and snow.Harper 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
-57.76206° or 57° 45′ 43″ southLongitude
-26.49318° or 26° 29′ 36″ westElevation
31 metres (102 feet)Open location code
39JM6GQ4+5POpenStreetMap ID
node 6709200779OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Harper Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Harper Point”
- Chinese: “哈珀角”
- German: “Harper Point”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Harper Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Harper Point”
- Norwegian: “Harper Point”
- Spanish: “Punta Harper”
- Swedish: “Harper Point (udde i Sydgeorgien och Sydsandwichöarna)”
- Swedish: “Harper 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 “Harper Point”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.