Craigie Point
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- Type: Cape
- Description: cape in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Also known as: “Graicie Point”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Comer Crag.
Comer Crag
Peak
Comer Crag is a crag, 635 metres high, standing 1 nautical mile north of the head of Ice Fjord in the western part of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Captain George Comer of East Haddam, Connecticut, who made his first sealing visit to South Georgia in the topsail schooner Era in 1885.
Craigie Point
- Category: landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-54.00827° or 54° 0′ 30″ southLongitude
-37.6454° or 37° 38′ 44″ westElevation
87 metres (285 feet)Open location code
39Q4X9R3+MROpenStreetMap ID
node 5426157659OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Craigie Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Craigie Point”
- Chinese: “克雷吉角”
- German: “Craigie Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Craigie Point”
- Swedish: “Craigie Point”
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