Jeffries Point
Encyclopedia
Jeffries Point is a point on the south-central side of Cook Island
in the South Sandwich Islands. Charted in 1930 by DI personnel on the assistant to the staff of the Discovery Committee
. Jeffries Point is also the name of a neighborhood along the waterfront in East Boston in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
in the United States
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42.3665°N 71.0356°W
Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands
Cook Island is the central and largest island of Southern Thule, part of the South Sandwich Islands in the far south Atlantic Ocean. Southern Thule was discovered by a British expedition under Captain James Cook in 1775. The island was named for Cook by a Russian expedition under Bellingshausen,...
in the South Sandwich Islands. Charted in 1930 by DI personnel on the assistant to the staff of the Discovery Committee
Discovery Committee
The Discovery Committee was a popular name for the Interdepartmental Committee for the Dependencies of the Falkland Islands established by the British Government to carry out scientific investigations and to propose nature resource conservation and economic development policies for the Falkland...
. Jeffries Point is also the name of a neighborhood along the waterfront in East Boston in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
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42.3665°N 71.0356°W