Beach Point

Beach Point is the northeast tip of , in the South Sandwich Islands, made conspicuous by a bare rock ridge and a narrow beach of boulders and pebbles. It was charted and named in 1930 by DI personnel on the Discovery II who made a landing there.
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Beach Point

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Latitude
-59.41583° or 59° 24′ 57″ south
Longitude
-27.32389° or 27° 19′ 26″ west
Open location code
39GJHMMG+MC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1601855881
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cape
Geo­Names ID
3426587
Wiki­data ID
Q393638

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Beach Point” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Beach Point (punta sa South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)”
  • Cebuano: “Beach Point”
  • Chinese: “比奇角”
  • German: “Beach Point”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beach Point”
  • Spanish: “Punta Playa”
  • Swedish: “Beach Point (udde i Sydgeorgien och Sydsandwichöarna)”
  • Swedish: “Beach Point”

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