Mothes Point

	Mothes Point
	Geographical location
Coordinates	67 ° 14 ′ S , 67 ° 51 ′ W Coordinates: 67 ° 14 ′ S , 67 ° 51 ′ W
location	Adelaide Island ( Adelaide and Biscoe Islands , West Antarctica )
Waters	Barlas Canal
Waters 2	Grosswald Bay

The Mothes Point is a headland on the east coast of Adelaide Island off the west coast of the Antarctic Graham Lands . It is located 11 km southwest of The Gullet in the Barlas Canal and marks the southern boundary of the entrance to Grosswald Bay .

The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped the headland based on its surveys carried out between 1948 and 1950 and using aerial photographs of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the German glaciologist Hans Mothes (1902-1989), who carried out the first seismic soundings of a glacier in Austria in 1926 .

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