Boy Point
| Boy Point | ||
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 10 ′ S , 58 ° 10 ′ W | |
| location | King George Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Waters 2 | Zielony Balonik Cove | |
The Boy Point ( Polish Przylądek Boy'a ) is a headland on the south coast of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It's between the Cinder Spur and the Low Head .
Participants in a Polish Antarctic expedition named him in 1980 after the Polish poet Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874–1941).
Web links
- Boy Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Boy Point on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of place names in Antarctica introduced by Poland in 1978-1990. Compiled by Jan Cisak. Polish Polar Research 3, 3-4, Warsaw 1992, pp. 273-302; here p. 276. Retrieved January 13, 2018