Knob Point (Ross Island)
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 Map of Ross Island with Knob Point (bottom left) |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 47 ′ S , 166 ° 40 ′ E | |
| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Waters | Erebus Bay | |
The Knob Point ( English for Knaufspitze ) is a rounded headland on the Antarctic Ross Island . It is 2.5 km west of Castle Rock on the west coast of the Hut Point Peninsula .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names made the descriptive naming of the headland in 1968 at the suggestion of the biologist Gerald L. Kooyman, who had studied the physiology of Weddell seal dives in this area from 1963 to 1964 and from 1964 to 1965 and who took up the naming process called for use by previous scientists.
Web links
- Knob Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Knob Point on geographic.org (English)