Morrell Point
Morrell Point' is the northernmost point on the west coast of Thule Island in the South Sandwich Islands. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971 for Benjamin Morrell, a sealer of Stonington, Connecticut, who visited the island in the Wasp in 1823.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Thule Island and Mount Larsen.
Thule Island
Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Thule Island, also called Morrell Island, is one of the southernmost of the South Sandwich Islands, part of the grouping known as Southern Thule. It is named, on account of its remote location, after the mythical land of Thule, said by ancient geographers to lie at the extreme end of the Earth.
Mount Larsen
Volcano
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Mount Larsen is a mountain, 710 metres high, situated in the east-central portion of Thule Island in the South Sandwich Islands. It was charted in 1930 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II who named it for Captain C.A. Larsen.
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.
Morrell Point
- Type: Cape
- Description: peninsula in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, British Overseas Territories
- Categories: peninsula and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-59.43183° or 59° 25′ 55″ southLongitude
-27.40831° or 27° 24′ 30″ westOpen location code
39GJHH9R+7MOpenStreetMap ID
node 12241339942OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
10787614Wikidata ID
Q376318
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Swedish—“Morrell Point” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Morrell Point”
- Cebuano: “Punta Morrell”
- Chinese: “莫雷爾角”
- French: “Morrell Point”
- German: “Morrell Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Morrell Point”
- Spanish: “Punta Morrell”
- Swedish: “Punta Morrell”
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