Bonaparte Point
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 47 ′ S , 64 ° 4 ′ W | |
| location | Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Waters 2 | Arthur Harbor | |
The Bonaparte Point ( French Pointe [Roland] Bonaparte ) is a narrow headland on the south side of the entrance to Arthur Harbor on the southwest coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula .
Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) carried out a mapping. The expedition leader Jean-Baptiste Charcot named the cape after Roland Bonaparte (1858–1924), then president of the Société de Géographie . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee translated the name into English in 1958.
Web links
- Bonaparte Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bonaparte Point on geographic.org (English)