Hervéou Point
| Hervéou Point | ||
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 4 ′ S , 64 ° 3 ′ W | |
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Booth Island ( Palmer Archipelago , West Antarctica ) |
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| Waters | Port Charcot | |
| Waters 2 | Salpêtrière Bay | |
The Hervéou Point ( French Pointe Hervéou ) is a headland that forms the western foothills of the peninsula between Port Charcot and Salpêtrière Bay on the west side of Booth Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast 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 a sailor from his research vessel Français .
Web links
- Hervéou Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hervéou Point on geographic.org (English)