Nygren Point
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 23 ′ S , 58 ° 13 ′ W | |
| location | James Ross Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
The Nygren Point is a rocky headland on the southwest side of the Antarctic James Ross Island . It is located 6 km southeast of Cape Brom .
The first sighting goes back to participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) led by Otto Nordenskjöld . Nordenskjöld named it Cape Nygren after the Swedish chemist Gottfried Leonard Nygren (1849–1916), a sponsor of the research trip. After measurements by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1952, the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names decided to adapt the name to better correspond to the nature of the geographic object as a headland.
Web links
- Nygren Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nygren Point on geographic.org (English)