Berlioz Point

	Berlioz Point
	Geographical location
Coordinates	72 ° 10 ′ S , 74 ° 7 ′ W Coordinates: 72 ° 10 ′ S , 74 ° 7 ′ W
location	Alexander I Island , West Antarctica
coast	Beethoven Peninsula
Waters	Bach Inlet
Waters 2	Couperin Bay

The Berlioz Point is a snow-covered headland on the south coast of the Beethoven Peninsula of West Antarctic Alexander Island . To the northwest, it marks the entrance from the Ronne Entrance into the Bach Inlet and the eastern boundary of the entrance to Couperin Bay .

Participants of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) mapped the southern part of Alexander I Island in rough outline . This chapter is not recorded in the map material produced . The British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped Berlioz Point in 1960 using aerial photographs taken by the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after the French composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869).

Web links