Pageant Point
| Pageant Point | ||
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| Coordinates | 60 ° 44 ′ S , 45 ° 35 ′ W | |
| location | Signy Island ( South Orkney Islands ) | |
| Waters | Orwell Bight | |
The Pageant Point ( English for Festzugsspitze is) a point of land on the east coast of Signy Iceland in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It is the middle and highest of three ice-free headlands at the eastern end of the Gourlay Peninsula .
Participants in the British Discovery Investigations conducted a survey in 1933. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) repeated this in 1947. Members of the FIDS named the headland after the behavior of the penguins in the breeding colonies on the Gourlay Peninsula.
Web links
- Pageant Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pageant Point on geographic.org (English)