Iceberg Point

This article describes the headland of the West Antarctic Anvers Island. For the headland of the same name on Bird Island in the archipelago of South Georgia see Iceberg Point (Bird Island) .

Iceberg Point
Geographical location
Coordinates	64 ° 39 ′  S , 63 ° 5 ′  W Coordinates: 64 ° 39 ′  S , 63 ° 5 ′  W
location	Anvers Island ( Palmer Archipelago , West Antarctica )
Waters	Gerlache Street
Waters 2	Lion sound

The Iceberg Point (in Chile Punta Témpano , translated on both sides as iceberg tip ) is a prominent headland on the east coast of Anvers Island in the West Antarctic Palmer Archipelago . It is located 13 km west-southwest of Cape Van Rijswijck .

The first mapping goes back to participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery . Your name first appears on a map based on surveys carried out in 1927 by scientists from the British Discovery Investigations .

Web links

• Iceberg Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Iceberg Point on geographic.org (English)