Appleton Point
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Coordinates | 61 ° 14 ′ S , 55 ° 22 ′ W | |
location | Elephant Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
Waters | Loper Canal |
The Appleton Point is a headland in southwest Elephant Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located 2.5 km southeast of Stinker Point and immediately west-northwest of Piperkov Point .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2019. It is named after James Appleton, captain of the sealer Charles Shearer from Stonnington , who operated in the waters around the South Shetland Islands between 1874 and 1875 and whose wreckage is today after the ship disappeared without a trace in 1877 is in a bay north of the headland, which is one of the Historic Sites and Monuments in Antarctica (HSM-74).
Web links
- Appleton Point in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)