Penny Point
Nicholson Peninsula is a broad ice-covered peninsula about 15 nautical miles long, between Couzens Bay and Matterson Inlet on the Shackleton Coast on the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica.Penny Point
- Type: Cape
- Description: headland in Antarctica
- Categories: headland and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-80.8° or 80° 48′ south
Longitude
160.68333° or 160° 41′ east
Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)
Named after
Lieutenant Commander H.C. Penny
Open location code
2VF26M2M+28
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Penny Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Penny Point”
- Chinese: “彭尼角”
- German: “Penny Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Penny Point”
- Swedish: “Penny Point”
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