Wasp Point

Wasp Point is a projecting point in the middle of the southwest coast of , South Sandwich Islands. It was named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971 after the American sealing vessel in which Captain Benjamin Morrell of Stonington, CT, visited the in 1823.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Thule Island and Mount Larsen.

Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
, also called Morrell Island, is one of the southernmost of the South Sandwich Islands, part of the grouping known as . 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.

Volcano
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is a mountain, 710 metres high, situated in the east-central portion of 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.

Locality
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was an Argentine military outpost established in November 1976 on , , in the South Sandwich Islands. It was vacated and mostly demolished in 1982 following Britain's victory against Argentina in the Falklands War.

Wasp Point

Latitude
-59.45776° or 59° 27′ 28″ south
Longitude
-27.3697° or 27° 22′ 11″ west
Open location code
39GJGJRJ+V4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 12241339940
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cape
Geo­Names ID
10787878
Wiki­data ID
Q376181
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Spanish—“Wasp Point” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “沃斯普角”
  • German: “Wasp Point”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wasp Point”
  • Spanish: “Punta Wasp”

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