Hardy Point
Hardy Point is the western point of Bellingshausen Island in the South Sandwich Islands. It was charted in 1930 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II, who named it for Alister C.Places of Interest
Highlights include Bellingshausen Island and Basilisk Peak.
Bellingshausen Island
Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Bellingshausen Island is one of the most southerly islands of the South Sandwich Islands, close to Thule Island and Cook Island, and forming part of the Southern Thule group.
Basilisk Peak
Peak
Basilisk Peak is, at 255 metres, the highest peak marking the crater rim of Bellingshausen Island, South Sandwich Islands. The name as applied by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971 "marks the aura of this savage cliff which falls abruptly into a deep and steaming crater where the basilisk of legend might properly have his den."…
Hardy 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
-59.41795° or 59° 25′ 5″ southLongitude
-27.09483° or 27° 5′ 41″ westOpen location code
39GJHWJ4+R3OpenStreetMap ID
node 2596029199OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
3426459Wikidata ID
Q393538
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Hardy Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Hardy Point”
- Chinese: “哈迪角”
- German: “Hardy Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hardy Point”
- Spanish: “Punta Hardy”
- Swedish: “Hardy Point (udde i Sydgeorgien och Sydsandwichöarna)”
- Swedish: “Hardy Point”
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