Lockley Point
| Lockley Point | ||
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 47 ′ S , 63 ° 22 ′ W | |
| location | Wiencke Island ( Palmer Archipelago , West Antarctica ) | |
| Waters | Neumayer Canal | |
| Waters 2 | Lockley Bay | |
The Lockley Point is a low and icy headland on the northwest coast of Wiencke Island in the West Antarctic Palmer Archipelago . It is located 1.5 km northeast of Noble Peak and limits the entrance from the Neumayer Canal into Lockley Bay to the west .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery discovered the headland. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) mapped and named it in 1944. It is named after Gordon Joseph Lockley (* 1916), participant in Operation Tabarin (1944–1945) and then a biologist, meteorologist and head of the FIDS station at Port Lockroy .
Web links
- Lockley Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lockley Point on geographic.org (English)