Café Point

Café Point Lana Point
Geographical location
Coordinates	64 ° 39 ′  S , 61 ° 58 ′  W Coordinates: 64 ° 39 ′  S , 61 ° 58 ′  W
location	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
coast	Danco coast
Waters	Plata passage

The Café Point ( Spanish Punta Café , in the United Kingdom Lana Point ) is a headland on the east side of the Plata Passage in Wilhelmina Bay on the Danco coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is 3 km east of Nansen Island and just as far south of Zapato Point .

Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery carried out a rough map on February 7, 1898. The name of the headland can be found for the first time on an Argentine map from 1954. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated the original name into English in 1965. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee, however, named the headland in 1960 after Francesco Lana Terzi (1631-1687), who in 1670 probably created the first draft for the construction of an airship .

Web links

• Café Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Café Point on geographic.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 271 (English).