Mansfield Point

	Mansfield Point
	; Map of Coronation Island (center) with Norway Bight and Mansfield Point
	Geographical location
Coordinates	60 ° 38 ′ S , 45 ° 44 ′ W Coordinates: 60 ° 38 ′ S , 45 ° 44 ′ W
location	Coronation Island ( South Orkney Islands )
Waters	Weddell Sea
Waters 2	Norway Bight

The Mansfield Point is a headland on the south coast of Coronation Iceland in Archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It marks the east side of the entrance to Norway Bight .

British Discovery Investigations participants mapped the headland in 1933. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) carried out surveys between 1948 and 1949. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named her on March 31, 1955 after Arthur Walter Mansfield (* 1926), FIDS meteorologist in Grytviken in 1952 and head of the FIDS station on Signy Island the following year .

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