Wheatstone, Cape
The Hallett Peninsula is a triangular, dome-shaped peninsula, 20 nautical miles long, with 1,500 metres cliffs on its eastern seaboard side and 300 metres on its west side.- Type: Cape
- Description: headland of Antarctica
- Also known as: “Cape Wheatstone”
Wheatstone, Cape
- Categories: headland and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-72.61544° or 72° 36′ 56″ south
Longitude
170.19347° or 170° 11′ 37″ east
Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)
Named after
Sir Charles Wheatstone
Open location code
2VVG95MV+R9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Wheatstone, Cape” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wheatstone”
- Chinese: “惠特斯通角”
- German: “Kap Wheatstone”
- Japanese: “ホイートストン岬”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cape Wheatstone”
- Swedish: “Wheatstone (udde i Antarktis)”
- Swedish: “Wheatstone”
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