Scoresby Point
Larsen Harbour is a narrow 2.6 miles long inlet of indenting volcanic rocks and sheeted dykes known as the Larsen Harbour Formation. It is a branch of Drygalski Fjord, entered 2.5 miles west-northwest of Nattriss Head, at the southeast end of South Georgia Island.Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Mair and Mount Clara.
Mount Mair
Peak
Photo: Christopher Michel, CC BY 2.0.
Mount Mair is a mountain rising to 780 m between Brandt Cove and Larsen Harbor, Drygalski Fjord, South Georgia. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Bruce F.
Mount Clara
Peak
Mount Clara is a peak rising to about 790 metres to the east of Mount Normann and south of Larsen Harbour, in southeast South Georgia. It was charted and named by Discovery Investigations personnel in 1927. Mount Clara is situated 3 km west of Scoresby Point.
Slossarczyk Crag
Peak
Slossarczyk Crag is a mountain crag, 805 m, between Doubtful Bay and Esbensen Bay at the southeast end of South Georgia. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951–57. Slossarczyk Crag is situated 3½ km south of Scoresby Point.
Scoresby Point
- Type: Locality
- Description: located in South Georgia
- Category: point
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-54.83088° or 54° 49′ 51″ southLongitude
-36.00469° or 36° 0′ 17″ westElevation
139 metres (456 feet)Open location code
39Q55X9W+J4OpenStreetMap ID
node 9112166889OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Scoresby Point” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “斯科斯比角”
- German: “Scoresby Point”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Scoresby Point”
- Hausa: “Scoresby Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Scoresby Point”
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