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South East Cape (Tasmania) South Point (mainland) 55°03′S 43°38′S 39°08′S Bouvet Island: Larsøya: 54°27′S Falkland Islands: Beauchene Island: 52°53′S New Zealand: Jacquemart Island Slope Point (South Island) 52°37′S 46°40′S French Southern and Antarctic Lands (Except Antarctica) Îles de Boynes, Kerguelen: 50°01′S South ...
The United Nations categorize Bouvet Island as part of South America, [4] while the World Factbook categorizes it as part of Antarctica. [23] South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands are closer to Antarctica than to any other continent. However, they are politically associated with the Falkland Islands, which are less geographically ...
The north–south motion of Antarctica relative to Africa and South America before anomaly 28 changed to a slow east–west clockwise motion around 60 Ma, an abrupt change coincident with change in triple junction configuration. [6] During the Late Paleocene–Early Eocene Antarctica and South America separated at a rate of only 0.3 cm/yr.
It is claimed by Argentina (as part of Argentine Antarctica), Britain (as part of the British Antarctic Territory) and Chile (as part of the Chilean Antarctic Territory). Graham Land is the closest part of Antarctica to South America. [2] Thus it is the usual destination for small ships taking paying visitors on Antarctic trips from South ...
The Southern Ocean then extended from Antarctica northwards to latitude 40° south between Cape Agulhas in Africa (long. 20° east) and Cape Leeuwin in Western Australia (long. 115° east), and extended to latitude 55° south between Auckland Island of New Zealand (long. 165° or 166° east) and Cape Horn in South America (long. 67° west). [16]
The extreme points of South America are the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location on the continent. The continent's southernmost point is often said to be Cape Horn , but Águila Islet of the Diego Ramírez Islands lies further south.
The border between North and South America is at some point in the Isthmus of Panama. The most common demarcation in atlases and other sources follows the Darién Mountains watershed that divides along the Colombia–Panama border where the isthmus meets the South American continent (see Darién Gap ).
The southernmost continental point of land outside Antarctica is in South America at Cape Froward, Magallanes Region, Chile The southernmost point of (liquid) water is a bay on the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf along the coast of Antarctica ( 83°S 59°W / 83°S 59°W / -83; -59 ) [ citation needed ] , about 100 km (60 mi) south of ...