Loubat Point

	Loubat Point
	Geographical location
Coordinates	65 ° 5 ′ S , 63 ° 56 ′ W Coordinates: 65 ° 5 ′ S , 63 ° 56 ′ W
location	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
coast	Graham coast
Waters	Lemaire Channel
Waters 2	Deloncle Bay

The Loubat Point ( French Pointe de Loubat ) is a headland at the Graham Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . At the northwest end of the Kiev Peninsula , it forms the north side of the entrance to Deloncle Bay .

Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery were probably the first to sight this headland. Participants of the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot sighted them again. Charcot named it after the American philanthropist Joseph Florimond Loubat (1831-1927). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee converted the French name into English on September 22, 1954.

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