Erratic Point

	Erratic Point
	Geographical location
Coordinates	53 ° 3 ' S , 73 ° 23' E Coordinates: 53 ° 3 ' S , 73 ° 23' E
location	Heard ( Heard and McDonald Islands )
Waters	South West Bay

The Erratic Point ( English for boulder tip is) a small and moss-covered headland on the west side of the island Heard . It is located 2.1 km northeast of Cape Gazert near the Pageos Moraine on the shores of South West Bay .

Participants in the Gauss expedition , led by the German polar explorer Erich von Drygalski, mapped a cape from the summit of Mount Drygalski in 1902 and named it Cape Lark . In November 1929, participants in the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931), under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson, mapped a small headland in the approximate position of the cape and named it after the large number of erratic boulders they encountered there met. Scientists in a campaign by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions were unable to identify the cape mapped by the German expedition in 1948, so the designation made by the Australians was retained.

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