South Point
South Point is a point 1.75 nautical miles southwest of Entrance Point, marking the southernmost point of Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Cape
- Description: point on Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands
- Also known as: “South Point (Deception Island)”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Låvebrua Island and Kirkwood, Mount.
Låvebrua Island
Islet
Photo: mike, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Låvebrua Island is an island, 95 metres high, lying 1.3 kilometres east of South Point, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands off Antarctica.
Kirkwood, Mount
Peak
Mount Kirkwood is a mountain, 460 m, standing 3 nautical miles west of Entrance Point in the south part of Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands.
Cathedral Crags
Peak
Cathedral Crags is a rocky, ice-free hill with steeply cliffed sides, 140 metres high, surmounting the peninsula between Neptune's Window and Fildes Point on the southeast side of Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aguirre Cerda Research Station.
Aguirre Cerda Research Station
Locality
Photo: Jorval, Public domain.
President Pedro Aguirre Cerda Station was a Chilean Antarctic base, located at Pendulum Cove in Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands, inaugurated in 1955.
South Point
- Categories: headland and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-63.02038° or 63° 1′ 13″ southLongitude
-60.60578° or 60° 36′ 21″ westElevation
2 metres (7 feet)Open location code
378XX9HV+RMOpenStreetMap ID
node 10262638025OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“South Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sur”
- Chinese: “南角”
- Dutch: “Sur”
- German: “South Point”
- Spanish: “Punta Sur”
- Spanish: “Sur, Punta”
- Swedish: “Sur”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “South Point”. Photo: ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0.