Howard-Williams Point
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| Coordinates | 81 ° 26 ′ S , 161 ° 25 ′ E | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| coast | Shackleton coast | |
| Waters | Ross Ice Shelf | |
The Howard-Williams Point is a prominent headland at the Shackleton Coast in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It juts out into the Ross Ice Shelf immediately north of Beaumont Bay and northeast of the Surveyors Range
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2003 after environmentalists Clive Howard-Williams, New Zealand Representative and Vice-President of SCAR , previously of 1984 to several research trips to the Antarctic dry valleys , the Darwin Glacier and after Bratina Iceland accompanied would have.
Web links
- Howard-Williams Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Howard-Williams Point on geographic.org (English)