Blue Point (King George Island)
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 11 ′ S , 58 ° 48 ′ W | |
| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Waters | Collins Harbor | |
The Blue Point (English, Polish Przylądek Błękitny , Blue Cape ' ; in Argentina Punta Becco , in Chile Punta Velásquez ) is a headland on the south coast of King George Island in the group of the South Shetland Islands . It lies north of Buddington Peak on the west bank of Collins Harbor .
Polish scientists named it descriptively in 1980 after the bluish lava rock from which the headland is made. The background of the Argentine naming is not known. The namesake of the Chilean name is Rudecindo Velásquez Almonacid, a crew member on the Yelcho in the 1916 rescue of the participants in the endurance expedition (1914–1917) of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton who were stranded on Elephant Island .
Web links
- Blue Point in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)