Gaudin Point

	Gaudin's Point ; Punta Liniers
	Geographical location
Coordinates	65 ° 5 ′ S , 63 ° 21 ′ W Coordinates: 65 ° 5 ′ S , 63 ° 21 ′ W
location	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
coast	Danco coast
Waters	Bay of Flanders
Waters 2	Lauzanne Cove

The Gaudin Point (in Argentina Punta Liniers ) is a headland at the Danco Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . To the east, it limits the entrance to Lauzanne Cove in the Bay of Flanders .

Participants of the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot carried out the first mapping. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1977 after the French chemist and photography pioneer Marc Antoine Augustin Gaudin (1804–1880), who in 1841 received the first usable snapshots of moving objects. Name giver of the name common in Argentina is Santiago de Liniers (1753-1810), viceroy of the viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata .

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