O’Cain Point
O'Cain Point is a point lying 3 nautical miles northwest of Duthoit Point on the east side of Nelson Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The name O'Cain's Island, after the American sealing vessel O'Cain from Boston, MA, was applied by the Stonington sealers in 1820–21 to Nelson Island, but this name did not become established.- Cape
- Description: point in Antarctica on the east of Nelson Island
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-62.2643° or 62° 15′ 52″ south
Longitude
-58.8761° or 58° 52′ 34″ west
Open location code
3893P4PF+7H
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“O’Cain Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “O’Cain Point”
- Chinese: “奧凱恩角”
- Dutch: “O’Cain Point”
- German: “O’Cain Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “O’Cain Point”
- Spanish: “O’Cain, punta”
- Swedish: “O’Cain Point”
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