Knife Point

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Knife Point
Geographical location
Knife Point (South Orkney Islands)
Knife Point
Coordinates 60 ° 43 ′  S , 45 ° 37 ′  W Coordinates: 60 ° 43 ′  S , 45 ° 37 ′  W
location Signy Island ( South Orkney Islands )
Waters Borge Bay

The Knife Point is a headland on the south side of Borge Bay in the east of Signy Iceland in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It is located 150 m southeast of the mooring point .

The headland's name appears for the first time on a map drawn up in 1927 after a rough survey of Borge Bay by scientists from the British Discovery Investigations . The name probably goes back to whalers. The naming background has not survived.

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