Islands
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands

Chinstrap Point

Chinstrap Point is the southeast point of , South Sandwich Islands. This feature was named Rocky Point during a survey of the island from RRS Discovery II in 1930, but the name was changed to avoid duplication.
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Cape
  • Description: cape in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
  • Also known as: “Rocky Point”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pollux Rock and Castor Rock.

Islet
is the southern of a pair of large off-lying rocks south of , South Sandwich Islands. This rock, with its neighbour , was named "Castor and Pollux" during the survey of these islands from RRS Discovery II in 1930.

Islet
is the northern of a pair of large off-lying rocks south of , South Sandwich Islands. This rock, with its neighbor , was named "Castor and Pollux", after the Dioscuri of Greek mythology, during the survey of these islands from RRS Discovery II in 1930.

Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
is a small uninhabited island of the 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.

Chinstrap Point

Latitude
-57.12528° or 57° 7′ 31″ south
Longitude
-26.80527° or 26° 48′ 19″ west
Open location code
39JMV5FV+VV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9025691589
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cape
Geo­Names ID
3426548
Wiki­data ID
Q393552
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Satellite Map

Discover Chinstrap Point from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
© Stadia Maps, Airbus DS, CNES, PlanetObserver, and Copernicus

In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Chinstrap Point” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Chinstrap Point”
  • Chinese: “欽斯特拉普角”
  • German: “Chinstrap Point”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chinstrap Point”
  • Spanish: “Punta Roquedal”
  • Swedish: “Chinstrap Point”

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Highlights include Quadrant Peak and Trousers Rock.

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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 “Chinstrap Point”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.