Bibby Point
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Coordinates | 63 ° 49 ′ S , 57 ° 58 ′ W | |
location | James Ross Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
Waters | Prince Gustav Canal | |
Waters 2 | Brandy Bay |
The Bibby Point is a steep rock cape with snow inland directed edges, which is the entrance to Brandy Bay on the West Antarctic James Ross Island bounded to the northeast.
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1964 after John Selwyn Bibby (* 1935), geologist of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in Hope Bay between 1958 and 1959.
Web links
- Bibby Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bibby Point on geographic.org (English)