Punta Camus
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Coordinates | 64 ° 29 ′ S , 62 ° 25 ′ W | |
location | Brabant Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
Waters | Larvik Harbor | |
Waters 2 | Gerlache Street |
Punta Camus (Spanish; in Argentina Punta Cervantes ) is a headland in the southwest of the Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located southwest of Avicenna Bay and immediately south of Lagrange Peak and marks the northeast boundary of the entrance to Larvik Harbor .
Chilean scientists named it after Valentín Camus Leiva, a participant in the 6th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1951–1952). The background of the Argentine naming is not known.
Web links
- Camus, Punta in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)