Oscar Point
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- Type: Cape
- Description: peninsula in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Oscar Island”
Oscar Point
- Categories: peninsula and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-74.58288° or 74° 34′ 58″ southLongitude
164.87533° or 164° 52′ 31″ eastElevation
19 metres (62 feet)Named after
Oscar II of SwedenOpen location code
2VQ6CV8G+R4OpenStreetMap ID
node 11109119495OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
6622712Wikidata ID
Q2606270
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Oscar Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Oscar Point”
- Chinese: “奧斯卡角”
- Dutch: “Oscar Point”
- German: “Oscar Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oscar Point”
- Swedish: “Oscar Point”
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