Crépin Point
| Crépin Point | ||
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 5 ′ S , 58 ° 28 ′ W | |
| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Waters | Admiralty Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Mackellar Inlet or Caleta Aguilera | |
The Crépin Point (also Cape Crépin ) is a cape on the south coast of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands , which marks the west side of the entrance to Mackellar Inlet and the southern boundary of the entrance to its secondary bay Caleta Aguilera in Admiralty Bay .
It was discovered during the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery . Gerlache named the cape after the Belgian botanist François Crépin (1830–1903). It was mapped in 1909 by the French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot on the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910).
Web links
- Crépin Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Crépin Point on geographic.org (English)