Cape Alexandra
Cape Alexandra is a cape which forms the northwest extremity of South Georgia. It was named "Cape North" in 1775 by a British expedition under James Cook, but this name has since become established for a cape 10 nautical miles east-northeast which forms the northernmost point of South Georgia.- Type: Cape
- Description: cape in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Also known as: “Cape North”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gony Point and Square Rock.
Gony Point
Peak
Gony Point is a high tussock-covered point 0.5 miles southwest of Cardno Point, on the southeast side of Bird Island, South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1963.
Square Rock
Square Rock is a rock lying 0.3 nautical miles west of Cape Alexandra, at the west end of South Georgia. The name appears to be first used on a 1938 British Admiralty chart. This article incorporates public domain material from…Roché Peak
Peak
Roché Peak is a conspicuous peak rising to 365 metres, the highest feature on Bird Island, South Georgia. It stands 1.6 kilometres west of the east extremity of the island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pyramid Point and Cordall Stacks.
Pyramid Point
Locality
Elsehul is a bay along the north coast of South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Elsehul is approximately 0.5 miles wide, and is separated from nearby Undine Harbour by the narrow Survey Isthmus.
Cordall Stacks
Locality
The Cordall Stacks are two conspicuous rock stacks, the eastern one joined to Bird Island, South Georgia, by a low isthmus, lying on the northwest side of the island 0.3 nautical miles northwest of Jordan Cove.
Matthews Point
Locality
Undine Harbour is a small bay at the head of the embayment between Cape Paryadin and Cape Chaplin on the south coast of South Georgia.
Cape Alexandra
- Category: landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-54.01012° or 54° 0′ 36″ southLongitude
-38.00808° or 38° 0′ 29″ westOpen location code
39Q3XXQR+XQOpenStreetMap ID
node 5344683763OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
3426605Wikidata ID
Q312986
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Cape Alexandra” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cape Alexandra”
- Chinese: “亞歷山德拉角”
- German: “Kap Alexandra”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cape Alexandra”
- Swedish: “Cape Alexandra (udde i Sydgeorgien och Sydsandwichöarna)”
- Swedish: “Cape Alexandra”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hornaday Rock and Tickell Peak.
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