Polynesia Point
Signy Island is a small subantarctic island in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. It was named by the Norwegian whaler Petter Sørlle after his wife, Signy Therese.Places of Interest
Highlights include Signy Research Station and Tilbrook Hill.
Signy Research Station
Dwelling
Photo: NOAA Photo Library, CC BY 2.0.
Signy Research Station is an Antarctic research base on Signy Island, run by the British Antarctic Survey.
Tilbrook Hill
Peak
Tilbrook Hill is a hill rising to 70 m between Hillier Moss and Caloplaca Cove in southeast Signy Island, South Orkney Islands. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1990 after Peter J.
Oliphant Islands
Island
Oliphant Islands is a group of small ice-free islands and rocks lying south of Gourlay Peninsula, the southeast extremity of Signy Island in the South Orkney Islands. Dove Channel extends through this group in a general east-west direction.
Polynesia Point
- Type: Cape
- Also known as: “Punta Polinesia”
- Categories: peninsula and landform
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-60.71426° or 60° 42′ 51″ southLongitude
-45.58323° or 45° 34′ 60″ westOpen location code
38FP7CP8+7POpenStreetMap ID
node 2417910796OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
6623462Wikidata ID
Q488274
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Satellite Map
Discover Polynesia Point from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Polynesia Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Polinesia”
- Chinese: “波利尼西亞角”
- Dutch: “Polinesia”
- German: “Polynesia Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Polynesia Point”
- Spanish: “Polinesia, punta”
- Spanish: “Punta Polinesia”
- Swedish: “Polinesia”
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