Wood Point
Cape Crozier is the most easterly point of Ross Island in Antarctica. It was discovered in 1841 during James Clark Ross's polar expedition of 1839 to 1843 with HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and was named after Commander Francis Crozier, captain of HMS Terror, one of the two ships of Ross' expedition.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Wood Point
- Type: Cape
- Description: point in Antarctica
- Categories: peninsula and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-77.42216° or 77° 25′ 20″ southLongitude
168.9638° or 168° 57′ 50″ eastElevation
237 metres (778 feet)Named after
Robert C WoodOpen location code
2VJCHXH7+4GOpenStreetMap ID
node 11109206619OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
6628249Wikidata ID
Q21474517
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Wood Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wood Point”
- Dutch: “Wood Point”
- German: “Wood Point (Ross-Insel)”
- German: “Wood Point”
- Swedish: “Wood Point”
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