Guéguen Point
| Guéguen Point | ||
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 9 ′ S , 64 ° 7 ′ W | |
| location | Krogmanninsel ( Wilhelm Archipelago ) | |
| Waters | French passage | |
| Waters 2 | Penola Strait | |
The Guéguen Point ( French Pointe Guéguen ) is a headland that forms the southern end of the Krogmann Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula .
Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903–1905) were the first to map the headland. The expedition leader and polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot named it after Jacques Guéguen (1875–1954), who on this expedition took the crew on the Français and those on the Pourquoi-Pas? at Charcot's subsequent expedition (1908–1910). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee converted the French name into English in 1959.
Web links
- Guéguen Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Guéguen Point on geographic.org (English)