Hobbs Point
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 37 ′ S , 62 ° 2 ′ W | |
| location | Brooklyn Island , West Antarctica | |
| Waters | Wilhelmina Bay | |
The Hobbs Point (in Argentina Punta Manchada translated Speckled tip ) is a headland at the northeast end of the Brooklyn island before the Danco Coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery mapped them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1960 after the geologist Graham John Hobbs (1934-1999), who worked for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey on Danco Island in 1957 and 1958 and explored the coastline between Cape Murray and Cape Willems .
Web links
- Hobbs Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hobbs Point on geographic.org (English)