Wasp Point
Wasp Point is a projecting point in the middle of the southwest coast of Thule Island, 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 island in 1823.Places of Interest
Highlights include Thule Island and Mount Larsen.
Mount Larsen
Volcano
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Corbeta Uruguay base.
Corbeta Uruguay base
Locality
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Wasp Point
- Cape
- Description: headland on Thule Island in the subantarctic
- Categories
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-59.45776° or 59° 27′ 28″ south
Longitude
-27.3697° or 27° 22′ 11″ west
Open location code
39GJGJRJ+V4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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