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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Places of Interest

Highlights include Thule Island and Mount Larsen.

Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
, also called Morrell Island, is one of the southernmost of the South Sandwich Islands, part of the grouping known as . 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.

Volcano
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is a mountain, 710 metres high, situated in the east-central portion of 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.

Locality
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was an Argentine military outpost established in November 1976 on , , in the South Sandwich Islands. It was vacated and mostly demolished in 1982 following Britain's victory against Argentina in the Falklands War.

Beach Point

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
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Satellite Map

Discover Beach Point from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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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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