Pungent Point
Zavodovski Island is an uninhabited volcanic island in the Traversay Islands subgroup of the South Sandwich Islands, which are located southeast of South Georgia in the South Atlantic Ocean.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Asphyxia.
Mount Asphyxia
Volcano
Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Public domain.
Mount Asphyxia, also known as Mount Curry, is a prominent volcanic cone reaching to 550 metres, forming the summit of Zavodovski Island, northernmost of the South Sandwich Islands.
Pungent Point
- Type: Cape
- Categories: point and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-56.30078° or 56° 18′ 3″ southLongitude
-27.54337° or 27° 32′ 36″ westOpen location code
39MJMFX4+MMOpenStreetMap ID
node 10269044412OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
10787717Wikidata ID
Q376299
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Pungent Point” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “潘真特角”
- German: “Pungent Point”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pungent Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pungent Point”
- Norwegian: “Pungent Point”
- Spanish: “Punta Activa”
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