Longton Point
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Holdgate and Cook Island.
Mount Holdgate
Peak
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Mount Holdgate is a prominent mountain, 960 metres high, with steep icefalls and rock buttresses which provides a clear landmark at the southeast end of Cook Island in the South Sandwich Islands.
Cook Island
Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Cook Island is the central and largest island of the Southern Thule island group, part of the South Sandwich Islands in the far south Atlantic Ocean. Southern Thule was discovered by a British expedition under Captain James Cook in 1775.
Mount Harmer
Peak
Mount Harmer is an ice-covered peak, 1,115 metres high, in the north-central portion of Cook Island, in the South Sandwich Islands. It was charted in 1930 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II, who named it for Sir Sidney F.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Corbeta Uruguay base.
Corbeta Uruguay base
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Corbeta Uruguay base was an Argentine military outpost established in November 1976 on Thule Island, Southern Thule, in the South Sandwich Islands. It was vacated and mostly demolished in 1982 following Britain's victory against Argentina in the Falklands War.
Longton Point
- Type: Cape
- Categories: point and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-59.45622° or 59° 27′ 22″ southLongitude
-27.14421° or 27° 8′ 39″ westOpen location code
39GJGVV4+G8OpenStreetMap ID
node 12241413375OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
10787590Wikidata ID
Q376337
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Longton Point” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “朗頓角”
- German: “Longton Point”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Longton Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Longton Point”
- Norwegian: “Longton Point”
- Spanish: “Punta Longton”
Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Bellingshausen Island and Basilisk Peak.
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