Kuno Point
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 24 ′ S , 67 ° 10 ′ W | |
| location | Watkins Island ( Biscoe Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Waters | Southern ocean | |
The Kuno Point is a headland that the south-western outskirts of Watkins Iceland in Archipelago Biscoe Islands off the Loubet coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula forms.
Aerial photographs of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–1957) were used to map them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the headland on September 23, 1960 after the Japanese physiologist Yasushi Kuno (1882–1977), who had studied the influence of sweating on the temperature regulation of the human organism.
Web links
- Kuno Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kuno Point on geographic.org (English)