Ferin Head
| Ferin Head | ||
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 59 ′ S , 65 ° 20 ′ W | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| coast | Graham coast | |
| Waters | Southern ocean | |
Ferin Head is a headland on the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . At the northwestern end of the Velingrad Peninsula , it is 6 km north of the entrance to Holtedahl Bay .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot discovered the headland from a remote position in Pendleton Strait and mistakenly mapped it as an island, which Charcot referred to as Ile Férin . Participants of the British Grahamland Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill cleared this mistake out. Rymill kept Charcot's designation, but adapted the name to the actual nature of the geographic object , omitting the accent aigu . It is named after Alfred Férin, French Vice-Consul in Ponta Delgada in the Azores , who helped Charcot's expedition.
Web links
- Ferin Head in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ferin Head on geographic.org (English)