Nautilus Head
Nautilus Head is a prominent headland rising to 975 m near the northeast extremity of Pourquoi Pas Island, off the west coast of Graham Land. It was first surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition under Rymill and resurveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey who named it after the submarine Nautilus in Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.- Cape
- …lies at an elevation of 975 metres (3,199 feet)
- Description: headland
Nautilus Head
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-67.63792° or 67° 38′ 17″ south
Longitude
-67.12276° or 67° 7′ 22″ west
Open location code
374J9V6G+RV
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Nautilus Head” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Nautilus Head”
- Chinese: “鸚鵡螺角”
- German: “Nautilus Head”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nautilus Head”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nautilus Head”
- Norwegian: “Nautilus Head”
- Spanish: “Nautilus, monte”
- Swedish: “Nautilus Head”
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