Allen Point
Allen Point is the southeast point of Montagu Island, in the South Sandwich Islands. Montagu Island was discovered in 1775 by a British expedition under James Cook, but the point was first mapped by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen in 1819–20.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Oceanite.
Mount Oceanite
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Mount Oceanite is a conspicuous ice-covered mountain rising to 915 m in the extreme southeast corner of Montagu Island, which is the largest of the South Sandwich Islands, located in the Scotia Sea off the coast of Antarctica.
Allen Point
- Type: Cape
- Description: cape in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Category: landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-58.51541° or 58° 30′ 56″ southLongitude
-26.27726° or 26° 16′ 38″ westElevation
474 metres (1,555 feet)Open location code
39HMFPMF+R3OpenStreetMap ID
node 275491655OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Allen Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Allen Point”
- Chinese: “艾倫角”
- German: “Allen Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Allen Point”
- Spanish: “Punta Allen”
- Swedish: “Allen Point”
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Highlights include Easternmost point of South America and Montagu Island.
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