Gagge Point

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Gagge Point
Geographical location
Gagge Point (Antarctic Peninsula)
Gagge Point
Coordinates 66 ° 20 ′  S , 66 ° 53 ′  W Coordinates: 66 ° 20 ′  S , 66 ° 53 ′  W
location Lavoisier Island ( Biscoe Islands )
Waters Crystal sound
Waters 2 Lewis Sound

The Gagge Point is a headland of Lavoisier Island in the group of Biscoe Islands off the west coast of the West Antarctic Graham Lands . It represents the southern extension of the island and marks the northeast boundary of the entrance from Crystal Sound into Lewis Sound .

Aerial photographs of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–1957) were used to map them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1960 after the American biophysicist Adolph Pharo Gagge (1908-1993), who had studied the effects of cold on the human body.

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