Beacon Head
Beacon Head is a small headland at the north side of the entrance to Lystad Bay on Horseshoe Island, off Graham Land. It was so named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee because a timber beacon built on the headland by Argentines was used during the survey on Horseshoe Island by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955–57.
- Cape
- …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (20 feet)
- Description: headland
- Categories
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-67.82136° or 67° 49′ 17″ south
Longitude
-67.34554° or 67° 20′ 44″ west
Open location code
374J5MH3+FQ
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Beacon Head” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Beacon Head”
- Chinese: “比肯角”
- German: “Beacon Head”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beacon Head”
- Swedish: “Beacon Head”
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