Marble Point

Marble Point
Marble Point (1957)
Geographical location
Coordinates	77 ° 26 ′  S , 163 ° 50 ′  E Coordinates: 77 ° 26 ′  S , 163 ° 50 ′  E
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
coast	Scott coast
Waters	McMurdo Sound
Waters 2	Bernacchi Bay
Topographic map sheet Ross Island 1: 250,000 with Marble Point

The Marble Point ( English for marble point ) is a headland on the Scott coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It protrudes around 5 km north of Cape Bernacchi into the McMurdo Sound and marks the northern boundary of Bernacchi Bay .

Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907–1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton mapped them and named them after the marble found there .

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

Commons : Marble Point  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Marble Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Marble Point on geographic.org (English)
• Marble Point. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, pp. 202–203 (English)