Argo Point
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 16 ′ S , 60 ° 55 ′ W | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| coast | Oskar II coast | |
| Waters | Larsen Ice Shelf , Weddell Sea | |
The Argo Point is a steep-rise, 260 m high rocky cape on the east coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located on the east side of the Jason Peninsula at a distance of 35 km northeast of Veier Head .
It was first sighted probably in 1893 by the Norwegian whaling entrepreneur and Antarctic explorer Carl Anton Larsen . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a survey in 1953. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after the ship Argo from Greek mythology.
The unnamed volcanic cone immediately adjacent to the cape reaches a height of 360 m and was active in the Pleistocene . The potassium-argon dating of two basalts showed an age of 0.8–1.6 million years.
Web links
- Argo Point in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English).
- Argo Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey .
- Argo Point on geographic.org (English).
Individual evidence
- ^ John L. Smellie: Lithostratigraphy of Miocene-Recent, alkaline volcanic fields in the Antarctic Peninsula and eastern Ellsworth Land . In: Antarctic Science . tape 11 , no. 3 , September 1999, ISSN 0954-1020 , p. 362–378 , doi : 10.1017 / S0954102099000450 (English, freely available online through researchgate.net ).