Cañón Point
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Cañón Point Icarus Point |
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 34 ′ S , 61 ° 55 ′ W | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| coast | Danco coast | |
| Waters | Gerlache Street | |
| Waters 2 | Bancroft Bay | |
The Cañón Point ( Spanish Punta Cañón , cannon point ' ; in the United Kingdom Icarus Point ) is a headland on the Danco coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It marks the southwest side of the entrance to Bancroft Bay .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery carried out a rough map on February 7, 1898. The name of the headland can be found for the first time on an Argentine map from 1954. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated the original name into English in 1965. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee, however, named the headland in 1960 after Icarus , the son of the inventor Daidalos from Greek mythology.
Web links
- Cañón Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cañón Point on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 279 (English).