Landauer Point
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Landauer Point Cabo Éxodo |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 4 ′ S , 67 ° 49 ′ W | |
| location | Adelaide Island , West Antarctica | |
| Waters | Hanusse Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Tickle Channel | |
The Landauer Point (in Argentina Cabo Éxodo ) is a headland on the east coast of Adelaide Island off the west coast of the Antarctic Graham Lands . It marks the western boundary of the northern entrance to the Tickle Channel .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped the headland using aerial photographs of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) and the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956-1957). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the US physicist Joseph Kronthal Landauer (1927-1982), who had studied the mechanical properties of ice and the glacier flow.
Web links
- Landauer Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Landauer Point on geographic.org (English)