Jameson Point
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| Coordinates | 63 ° 18 ′ S , 62 ° 16 ′ W | |
| location | Low Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
The Jameson Point is a headland on the west coast of low Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located 5 km north of Cape Garry .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot made an initial rough mapping. Aerial photographs of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1955–1957) were used for mapping the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1959. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1962 in order to preserve the designation of Low Island as Jameson Island by the British navigator James Weddell . The further background of Weddell's naming is not known.
Web links
- Jameson Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jameson Point on geographic.org (English)