Herd Point

	Herd Point
	Geographical location
Coordinates	59 ° 28 ′ S , 27 ° 20 ′ W Coordinates: 59 ° 28 ′ S , 27 ° 20 ′ W
location	Thule Island ( South Sandwich Islands )
Waters	South Atlantic
Waters 2	Ferguson Bay
	; Punta Herd on the Argentine sketch map

The stove Point is a headland at the southern end of Thule Iceland in the archipelago of the South Sandwich Islands . It forms the west side of Ferguson Bay .

Participants in the first Russian Antarctic expedition (1819-1821) led by the German-Baltic seafarer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen roughly mapped them. A new mapping and naming was done by scientists of the British Discovery Investigations in 1930. It is named after R. D. Herd from the Ferguson Brothers shipyard in Port Glasgow , where the research vessel RRS Discovery II was built.

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