Finger Point (Viktorialand)
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 0 ′ S , 162 ° 26 ′ E | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| coast | Scott coast | |
| Waters | Granite Harbor | |
The Finger Point ( English for Finger Landspitze ) is a headland on the Scott coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It forms the eastern extension of The Flatiron in Granite Harbor .
Participants of the British Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott mapped it and gave it its descriptive name.
Web links
- Finger Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Finger Point on geographic.org