Fort Point (Greenwich Island)
| Fort Point | ||
 Map of Greenwich Island with Fort Point (right) |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 33 ′ S , 59 ° 35 ′ W | |
| location | Greenwich Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
 Fort Point (in the foreground) |
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The Fort Point (English for Fortress tip ) is a rugged, rocky and up to 85 m high headland on the south-western outskirts of Greenwich Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands .
Participants of the British Discovery Investigations notified the formation in 1935 as Castle Rock (English for Castle Rock ), a designation that the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1954 to avoid Namensdopplungen with other objects in Fort Rock changed. In both designations, those involved assumed that it was a rock island. However, aerial photographs from 1956 clearly show that there is a land connection with Greenwich Island, which is why the name has been adapted accordingly.
Web links
- Fort Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fort Point on geographic.org (English)