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Pio Point

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Pio Point (54°1′S 38°5′W) is a point forming the north side of the entrance to Johnson Cove at the west end of Bird Island, South Georgia. Roughly charted by DI personnel on the Discovery in the period 1926-30 and surveyed by HMS Owen in 1960-61. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1963. "Pio" is an old sailors' name for the light-mantled sooty albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata), a bird which breeds on Bird Island.

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

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Pio Point Wikipedia