Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above
website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for Cypress Point:
34.176544, -79.808675
Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Cypress Point
Bird Watching ...
We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Florence County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found four communities that are also named Cypress Point.
Within South Carolina, the name Cypress Point is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Cypress Point is located in Hillsborough County and lies 451 miles [725.8 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Cypress Point that is located in Florence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Cypress Point.
Putnam County
This Cypress Point is located in Putnam County and lies 326 miles [524.6 km] to the south southwest of the Cypress Point that is located in Florence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Putnam County community of Cypress Point.
Louisiana
Ouachita Parish
This Cypress Point is located in Ouachita Parish and lies 714 miles [1,149.1 km]<1> to the west of the Cypress Point that is located in Florence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ouachita Parish community of Cypress Point.
Texas
Harris County
This Cypress Point is located in Harris County and lies 971 miles [1,562.7 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Cypress Point that is located in Florence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harris County community of Cypress Point.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Cypress Point ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Cypress Point to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Cypress Point and extending to:
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 71 miles [114.3 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Cypress Point to Columbia, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 4 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take about three full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 360 miles [579.4 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take 6 hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 21 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,221 miles [10,011.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,913 miles [11,125.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,796 miles [7,718.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Cypress Point) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
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While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
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The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Cypress Point to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Cypress Point. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.1765, Longitude: -79.8087 In this case, the coordinates for Cypress Point have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.631 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.722 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.421 degrees.