Beacon Head
| Beacon Head | ||
 Granite at Beacon Head |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 49 ′ S , 67 ° 21 ′ W | |
| location | Horseshoe Island , Graham Land , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Waters | Bourgeois Fjord | |
| Waters 2 | Lystad Bay | |
| lighthouse | historical: wooden beacon | |
The Beacon Head is a small headland off the Fallières coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located on the north side of the entrance to Lystad Bay on Horseshoe Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the headland after the beacon (English beacon ), built the Argentine scientists here and the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey served as part of survey work from 1955 to 1957.
Web links
- Beacon Head in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Beacon Head on geographic.org (English)