Duff Point
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 Map of Greenwich Island with Duff Point |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 27 ′ S , 60 ° 2 ′ W | |
| location | Greenwich Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Waters 2 | McFarlane Strait | |
The Duff Point is a headland that the western end of Greenwich Iceland in the archipelago of South Shetland Islands represents. Together with Williams Point on the opposite Livingston Island, it marks the north-western entrance to McFarlane Strait .
The British navigator James Weddell named the strait known today as McFarlane Strait as Duff Strait after Captain Norwich Duff (1792-1862), under whom Weddell had served in 1814 on the ship HMS Espoir . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee decided in 1961 to keep Weddell's designation by transferring it to the headland described here.
Web links
- Duff Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Duff Point on geographic.org (English)