Longton Point
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| Coordinates | 59 ° 27 ′ S , 27 ° 9 ′ W | |
| location | Cook Island ( South Sandwich Islands ) | |
| Waters | South Atlantic | |
The Longton Point is a promontory of rock cliffs and glacial fractures on the southeastern foothills of Cook Iceland in the archipelago of the South Sandwich Islands .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1971 after the British botanist Royce Ekins Longton (* 1939), who was involved in the measurements of the South Sandwich Islands with the HMS Protector in 1964 .
Web links
- Longton Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Longton Point on geographic.org (English)