Rakusa Point
Rakusa Point is a point 0.5 nautical miles southeast of Point Thomas, Admiralty Bay, on King George Island, South Shetland Islands. Named by the Polish Antarctic Expedition in 1977 after Stanislaw Rakusa-Suszczewski, who established Poland's Arctowski Station near this point, February 26, 1977.Photo: Acaro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Arctowski Lighthouse and Napier Rock.
Napier Rock
Islet
Napier Rock is a rock lying 1.75 nautical miles east-southeast of Point Thomas in Admiralty Bay, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Charted by the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot, 1908–10.
Ecology Glacier
Glacier
Photo: Acaro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ecology Glacier is a glacier flowing northeast into Admiralty Bay, King George Island, north of Llano Point. It was named by the Polish Antarctic Expedition, 1980, after the Institute of Ecology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the sponsor of nearby Arctowski Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station.
Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station
Hamlet
The Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station is a permanent Antarctic research station named after the Brazilian Navy Commander Luís Antônio de Carvalho Ferraz, who visited Antarctica many times with the British exploration team and managed to convince his government to create a self-guided Brazilian Antarctic Program.
Rakusa Point
- Type: Cape
- Description: geographical feature in Antarctica
- Categories: peninsula and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-62.16291° or 62° 9′ 47″ southLongitude
-58.45728° or 58° 27′ 26″ westElevation
12 metres (39 feet)Open location code
3893RGPV+R3OpenStreetMap ID
node 775893598OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Rakusa Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Rakusa Point”
- Chinese: “拉庫薩角”
- Dutch: “Rakusa Point”
- German: “Rakusa Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rakusa Point”
- Polish: “Przylądek Rakusy”
- Polish: “Rakusa Point”
- Swedish: “Rakusa Point”
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