Homing head
| Homing head | ||
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 47 ′ S , 67 ° 15 ′ W | |
| location | Horseshoe Island , Graham Land , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Sally Cove | |
The Homing Head (English for targeting headland is) an up to 60 m high, from rocky cliffs fringed headland on the northeast coast of Horseshoe Iceland before Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It forms the northeast side of Sally Cove .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1958. It was named after the fact that the headland served the dog sled teams of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey as a point of reference for their return to the station on Horseshoe Island.
Web links
- Homing Head in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Homing Head on geographic.org (English)