Sotos Point
Sotos Point is a glaciated point projecting 180 m into the southeast part of Discovery Bay, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and forming the east side of the entrance to Montecinos Cove.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Cape
- Description: glaciated point in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
- Also known as: “Punta Sotos”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Poisson Hill and Breznik Heights.
Poisson Hill
Peak
Poisson Hill is a rounded ice-free hill rising to 80 m at the north extremity of Breznik Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and surmounting the Chilean Antarctic base Arturo Prat to the west-southwest. Poisson Hill is situated 2½ km northeast of Sotos Point.
Breznik Heights
Peak
Photo: Apcbg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Breznik Heights rises to over 600 m in the southeast part of Greenwich Island in Antarctica. They extend 12 km between Santa Cruz Point in the northeast and the base of the moraine spit of Provadiya Hook at the mouth of Yankee Harbour in the southwest. Breznik Heights is situated 3 km south of Sotos Point.
Sotos Point
- Categories: peninsula and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
Discover Sotos Point from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Sotos Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sotos”
- Chinese: “索托斯峰”
- Dutch: “Sotos”
- German: “Sotos Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sotos Point”
- Spanish: “Sotos, Punta”
- Swedish: “Sotos”
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Highlights include Mancilla Point and Fuente Rock.
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sotos Point”. Photo: ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0.