Pacific Point

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Pacific Point
Geographical location
Pacific Point (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
Pacific Point
Coordinates 56 ° 17 ′  S , 27 ° 35 ′  W Coordinates: 56 ° 17 ′  S , 27 ° 35 ′  W
location Zavodovski Island ( South Sandwich Islands )
Waters South Atlantic

The Pacific Point is a rounded Cape on the north west coast of Zavodovski Iceland in the archipelago of the South Sandwich Islands .

British Discovery Investigations scientists who surveyed the area in 1930 named it Low Point . The current name goes back to a recommendation by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1953. It is named after the schooner Pacific , with which Captain James Brown landed not far from the cape on Zavodovski Island in 1830.

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