Kendall Point

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Kendall Point
Geographical location
Kendall Point (South Shetland Islands)
Kendall Point
Coordinates 62 ° 55 ′  S , 60 ° 44 ′  W Coordinates: 62 ° 55 ′  S , 60 ° 44 ′  W
location Deception Island , South Shetland Islands
Waters Bransfield Street

The Kendall Point is a headland in the northwest of Deception Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is the westernmost branch of Kendall Terrace .

The British geologist Donald Durston Hawkes (* 1934) from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it in 1961. Polish scientists named it in 1999. The namesake is not known. As for Kendall Terrace, it is probably Edward Nicholas Kendall (1800–1845) of the Royal Navy , who carried out the first survey of Deception Island between January and March 1829 on the Antarctic voyage of HMS Chanticleer (1827–1831).

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