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.
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
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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.
Wasp Point
- Type: Cape
- Description: headland on Thule Island in the subantarctic
- Categories: point and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-59.45776° or 59° 27′ 28″ southLongitude
-27.3697° or 27° 22′ 11″ westOpen location code
39GJGJRJ+V4OpenStreetMap ID
node 12241339940OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
10787878Wikidata ID
Q376181
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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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