Hewison Point

	Hewison Point
	; Hewison Point with the Argentine lighthouse ; Baliza Punta Hewison . ; Left in the background Twitcher Rock
	Geographical location
Coordinates	59 ° 27 ′ S , 27 ° 18 ′ W Coordinates: 59 ° 27 ′ S , 27 ° 18 ′ W
location	Thule Island ( South Sandwich Islands )
Waters	South Atlantic and Ferguson Bay
Waters 2	Douglas Strait
	; Punta Hewison on the Argentine sketch map

The Hewison Point is a headland at the southeastern end of Thule Iceland in the archipelago of the South Sandwich Islands . It forms the east side of Ferguson Bay and the western boundary of the southern entrance to Douglas Strait .

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

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