Hat point

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Hat point
Dellbridge Islands map.png
Map of the Hutpoint Peninsula on Ross Island with Hut Point (bottom left)
Geographical location
Hut Point (Antarctica)
Hat point
Coordinates 77 ° 51 ′  S , 166 ° 38 ′  E Coordinates: 77 ° 51 ′  S , 166 ° 38 ′  E
location Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago )
Waters McMurdo Sound ( Ross Sea )

The Hut Point (English for Hüttenspitze ) is a small headland on the Antarctic Ross Island . At the southern end of the Hut Point Peninsula , it is 1.5 km northwest of Cape Armitage .

Participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904), led by British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott, discovered and named them. It is named after the fact that the headland served as the place for the construction of a hut , which was the base camp of the expedition and still exists today.

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