Sheep Point

Sheep Point (54°4′S 37°8′W / 54.067°S 37.133°W / -54.067; -37.133Coordinates: 54°4′S 37°8′W / 54.067°S 37.133°W / -54.067; -37.133) is a point along the south side of Cook Bay, marking the south side of the entrance to Prince Olav Harbour, on the north coast of South Georgia. The name appears on a chart based upon a 1929 survey of Prince Olav Harbour by DI personnel, but may reflect an earlier naming.

This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Sheep Point" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Capital: King Edward Point (Grytviken)

General	Coat of arms Commissioner Flag Foreign relations History Languages List of South Georgians Operation "Paraquet" South Georgia Museum .gs Sovereignty Invasion of South Georgia

Settlements / Whaling stations	Grytviken Godthul Husvik Leith Harbour Ocean Harbour Prince Olav Harbour Rosita Harbour Stromness Corbeta Uruguay

South Georgia islands	Annenkov Island Bird Island Black Rock Black Rocks Clerke Rocks Cooper Island Grass Island Grassholm Kupriyanov Islands Pickersgill Islands Prion Island Saddle Island Shag Rocks South Georgia Trinity Island Welcome Islands Willis Islands

South Sandwich islands	Bellingshausen Bristol Candlemas Cook Leskov Montagu Saunders Thule Vindication Visokoi Zavodovski Traversay Islands

Landmarks	Allardyce Range Fortuna Glacier Gold Harbour Larsen Harbour Mount Baume Mount Belinda Mount Cunningham Mount Paget Mount Roots Peggotty Bluff Salisbury Plain Salvesen Range Southern Thule Thatcher Peninsula Grace Glacier Lucas Glacier Bay of Isles Point Abrahamsen Sheep Point Stromness Bay Cumberland Bay Possession Bay Sheer Point Busen Point

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