Corral Point
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Coordinates | 60 ° 44 ′ S , 45 ° 42 ′ W | |
location | Moe Island ( South Orkney Islands ) | |
Waters | Weddell Sea |
The Corral Point is a rocky headland , which the south-western outskirts of Moe Iceland in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands form.
Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations carried out a rough survey in 1933. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey named them in the course of their own surveys in 1947. It is named after the whaling company Corral in Bergen , Norway , a branch of a fishing company based in Corral in Chile, which operated between 1912 and 1913 in the waters around South Georgia.
Web links
- Corral Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Corral Point on geographic.org (English)