Edmonson Point
Edmonson Point is a rounded, largely ice-free point lying below Mount Melbourne along the west side of Wood Bay, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from US Navy air photographs, 1955–63, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Larry Edmonson, a satellite geodesy scientist at McMurdo Station, winter party 1966.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Edmonson Point
- Type: Cape
- Description: headland of Antarctica
- Categories: headland and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-74.3333° or 74° 19′ 60″ south
Longitude
165.1167° or 165° 7′ 0″ east
Elevation
73 metres (240 feet)
Named after
Larry D. Edmonson
Open location code
2VQ7M488+MM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Edmonson Point from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Edmonson Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Edmonson Point”
- Chinese: “埃德蒙森峰”
- German: “Edmonson Point”
- Italian: “ASPA 165”
- Italian: “Punta Edmonson”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Edmonson Point”
- Swedish: “Edmonson Point”
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