Flagstaff Point

Flagstaff Point
Geographical location
Coordinates	77 ° 33 '  S , 166 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 77 ° 33 '  S , 166 ° 10'  E
location	Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica )
Waters	McMurdo Sound
Waters 2	Arrival Bay

The Flagstaff Point is the headland at the southern end of the Cape Royds on the west side of the Antarctic Ross Island . It marks the northwest boundary of the entrance to Arrival Bay .

Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton mapped them. Shackleton named it after the flagpole ( English flagstaff ), they had here far from base camp of the expedition Built.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Flagstaff Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Flagstaff Point on geographic.org (English)
• Flagstaff Point. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 128 (English)