Irving Point
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Coordinates | 56 ° 43 ′ S , 27 ° 8 ′ W | |
location | Visokoi Island ( South Sandwich Islands ) | |
Waters | South Atlantic |
The Irving Point is a headland that the eastern foothills of Visokoi Iceland in the archipelago of the South Sandwich Islands is.
The discovery and rough mapping go back to participants in the first Russian Antarctic expedition (1819–1821) under the direction of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen . Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations named it in the course of surveys in 1930 as Penguin Point after the penguin colony located here . Since a large number of other headlands have already been named so, the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee decided in 1953 to rename it. The new namesake is Lieutenant Commander John James Cawdell Irving (1898-1967) of the Royal Navy , who, as a crew member of Discovery II, made map sketches to the South Sandwich Islands in 1930 for the Discovery Investigations.
Web links
- Irving Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Irving Point on geographic.org (English)