Durham Point
| Durham Point | ||
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 Topographic map with Durham Point (top right) |
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| location | Marie-Byrd-Land , West Antarctica (politically: Ross Dependency ) | |
| part of | Tapley Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 32 ′ S , 151 ° 12 ′ W | |
The Durham Point is a small ridge at the Gould Coast of the West Antarctic Marie Byrd lands . At the northwest end of the Tapley Mountains , it extends from Mount Durham and east of the mouth of the Scott Glacier into the Ross Ice Shelf in a northerly direction.
The team around the US geologist Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) visited him in December 1934 as part of the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . It is named after the naming of Mount Durham. Its namesake is the city of Durham in the US state of New Hampshire , home of Stuart Douglas Lansing Pain (1910–1961), another member of the expedition.
Web links
- Durham Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Durham Point on geographic.org (English)