Hoffman Point
Hoffman Point is an ice-covered coastal headland at the south side of the mouth of Bertoglio Glacier, where the latter flows into the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hillary Coast.
Hillary Coast
Locality
The Hillary Coast is a portion of the coast of Antarctica along the western margin of the Ross Ice Shelf between Minna Bluff and Cape Selborne. It was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1961 for Sir Edmund Hillary, the leader of the New Zealand Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1956–58.
Hoffman Point
- Type: Cape
- Description: headland in Antarctica
- Categories: headland and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-79.32472° or 79° 19′ 29″ south
Longitude
160.56689° or 160° 34′ 1″ east
Elevation
167 metres (548 feet)
Named after
Commander G.L. Hoffman
Open location code
2VG2MHG8+4Q
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Hoffman Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Hoffman Point”
- Chinese: “霍夫曼角”
- German: “Hoffman Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hoffman Point”
- Swedish: “Hoffman Point (udde i Antarktis)”
- Swedish: “Hoffman Point”
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