Collins Point
Collins Point is a small but prominent headland 1.4 km west-south-west of Fildes Point, on the south side of Port Foster, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Cape
- Description: headland in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Punta Fontana”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cathedral Crags and Neptunes Window.
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.
Neptunes Window
Mountain saddle
Photo: Godot13, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Neptune's Window is a narrow gap between two rock pillars, situated close east of Whalers Bay on the southeast side of Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands.
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.
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.
Collins Point
- Categories: peninsula and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-62.99656° or 62° 59′ 48″ southLongitude
-60.58749° or 60° 35′ 15″ westElevation
40 metres (131 feet)Open location code
379X2C37+92OpenStreetMap ID
node 10262638024OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Collins Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Fontana”
- Chinese: “科林斯角”
- Dutch: “Fontana”
- German: “Collins Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Collins Point”
- Spanish: “Collins, Punta”
- Spanish: “Fontana, punta”
- Spanish: “Punta Collins”
- Spanish: “Punta Fontana”
- Swedish: “Collins Point”
- Swedish: “Fontana”
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