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Finger Point (other)
Finger Point may refer to: Places in Antarctica * Finger Point (South Sandwich Islands) * Finger Point (Wilhelm Archipelago) * Finger Point (Victoria Land) Other * ''The Finger Points'', a 1931 American film starring Richard Barthelmess and Fay Wray See also * Fingerpointing (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finger Point (South Sandwich Islands)
Visokoi Island is an uninhabited island in the Traversay Islands group of the South Sandwich Islands. It was discovered in 1819 by a Russian expedition under Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, who initially named the island Thorson Island in honor of Lieutenant , though the tsarist government later renamed the island Visokoi ("high"), after its conspicuous height, in response to Thorson's participation in the Decembrist revolt. The island was surveyed in 1930 by Discovery Investigations (DI) personnel, who charted and named many of its features. Several of the names given by DI were changed in 1953 by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) to avoid redundancy with nearby features. Geography The island is long and wide, capped by Mount Hodson, a volcanic peak (). The peak is named after Sir Arnold Weinholt Hodson, a governor of the Falkland Islands. The island has a strong smell of sulphurous fumes. The island is surrounded by an underwater Continental s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |