Cape Flannery
Cape Flannery is a cape which forms the west end of Thule Island in the South Sandwich Islands. It was charted in 1930 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the RSS Discovery II, who named it for Sir Fortescue Flannery, a member of the Discovery Committee.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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.
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.
Cape Flannery
- Type: Cape
- Description: cape in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Category: landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-59.44209° or 59° 26′ 32″ southLongitude
-27.41651° or 27° 24′ 59″ westElevation
82 metres (269 feet)Open location code
39GJHH5M+59OpenStreetMap ID
node 275503996OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Cape Flannery” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cape Flannery”
- Chinese: “弗蘭納里角”
- German: “Kap Flannery”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cape Flannery”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cape Flannery”
- Norwegian: “Cape Flannery”
- Spanish: “Cabo Flannery”
- Swedish: “Cape Flannery”
Localities in the Area
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