False Island Point
| False Island Point | ||
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| Coordinates | 63 ° 56 ′ S , 57 ° 20 ′ W | |
| location | Vega Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Waters | Erebus and Terror Golf | |
| Waters 2 | Bahía Esteverena | |
The False Iceland Point ( English for Wrong Island headland ) is a headland , over a flat, narrow and barely visible isthmus to the south side of Vega Island south of the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula is connected. It marks the entrance from the Erebus and Terror Gulf to the Bahía Esteverena .
The object was first sighted and mapped as an island in 1902 during the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under the direction of polar explorer Otto Nordenskjöld . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , to which the descriptive naming goes back, discovered the actual nature of the formation during a survey in 1945.
Web links
- False Iceland Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- False Island Point on geographic.org (English)