Appleton Point

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Appleton Point
Geographical location
Appleton Point (South Shetland Islands)
Appleton Point
Coordinates 61 ° 14 ′  S , 55 ° 22 ′  W 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).

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