Crosscut Point
Crosscut Point is a series of jagged rocks forming the north end of Vindication Island in the South Sandwich Islands. It was charted in 1930 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II, and so named because numerous crosscutting dikes have withstood weathering and produced this irregular formation.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Cape
- Description: cape in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Also known as: “Punta Intersección”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vindication Island and Saw Rock.
Vindication Island
Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Vindication Island is a small uninhabited island of the Candlemas Islands in the South Sandwich Islands. It is one of about a dozen islands that make up the South Sandwich island arc, a chain of volcanoes in the Southern Ocean that was discovered in 1775 by James Cook.
Saw Rock
Islet
Saw Rock is a rock, 25 m high, lying 0.4 nautical miles north of Crosscut Point, the north extremity of Vindication Island, in the South Sandwich Islands.
Quadrant Peak
Peak
Quadrant Peak is a peak forming the summit of Vindication Island, South Sandwich Islands. The peak forms a narrow ridge above the uniform slopes of the original volcanic cone, and is a quadrant of what was probably once a circular mass cone.
Crosscut Point
- Category: landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-57.10859° or 57° 6′ 31″ southLongitude
-26.82952° or 26° 49′ 46″ westOpen location code
39JMV5RC+H5OpenStreetMap ID
node 9025691586OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
3426525Wikidata ID
Q393601
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Crosscut Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Crosscut Point”
- Chinese: “克羅斯卡特角”
- German: “Crosscut Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Crosscut Point”
- Spanish: “Punta Perfil”
- Swedish: “Crosscut 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 “Crosscut Point”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.