Depeaux Point
| Depeaux Point | ||
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 11 ′ S , 64 ° 9 ′ W | |
| location | Petermann Island ( Wilhelm Archipelago ) | |
| Waters | Penola Strait | |
The Depeaux Point ( French Pointe Depeaux ) is a headland that forms the southern end of Petermann Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula .
Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903–1905) were the first to map the headland. The expedition leader and polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot named it after the French industrialist, art collector and philanthropist François Depeaux (1853–1920), who was responsible for building the ship Pourquoi-Pas? for Charcot's subsequent research trip (1908–1910). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee transferred the French name to English in 1959.
Web links
- Depeaux Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Depeaux Point on geographic.org (English)