Gony Point
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Gony Point () is a high tussock-covered point 0.5 miles (0.8 km) southwest of Cardno Point, on the southeast side of Bird Island, South Georgia. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951-57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1963. Gony (also spelled gooney) is an old sailors' name for the wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans), which breeds on Bird Island.
This article incorporates text from Gony Point, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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