Bottrill Head
| Bottrill Head | ||
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 42 ′ S , 66 ° 58 ′ W | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| coast | Fallières coast | |
| Waters | Bourgeois Fjord | |
| Waters 2 | Dogs Leg Fjord | |
The Bottrill Head is a rugged headland at the Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located on the east side of the Bourgeois Fjord and forms the north side of the entrance to the Dogs Leg Fjord .
The formation was first measured in 1936 during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) carried out a new survey in 1948. The latter named the headland after Harold Bottrill (1895-1948), board member and later general director of the shipping company Maclean & Stapledon SA in Montevideo , Uruguay , who supported both Rymill's expedition and the FIDS in their work.
Web links
- Bottrill Head in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bottrill Head on geographic.org (English)