Maurstad Point
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 39 ′ S , 66 ° 5 ′ W | |
| location | Renaud Island ( Biscoe Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Waters | Southern ocean | |
The Maurstad Point (in Chile Punta Micalvi ) is a headland halfway along the west side of the Renaud Island in the archipelago of the Biscoe Islands off the west coast of the West Antarctic Graham Land . It is located 10.5 km north-northwest of Speerschneider Point .
The headland was first shown on an Argentine map from 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after the Norwegian geographer Alf Maurstad (1901 – unknown), author of the 1935 Atlas of Sea Ice . The namesake of the Chilean name is the cargo ship Micalvi .
Web links
- Maurstad Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Maurstad Point on geographic.org (English)