Pinel Point

	Pinel Point
	Geographical location
Coordinates	64 ° 22 ′ S , 62 ° 10 ′ W Coordinates: 64 ° 22 ′ S , 62 ° 10 ′ W
location	Brabant Island ( Palmer Archipelago , West Antarctica )
Waters	Gerlache Street
Waters 2	Pampas passage

The Pinel Point is a headland on the east coast of the Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 8 km northeast of Cape d'Ursel and marks the entrance to the Pampa Passage to the southwest .

Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899), led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery , carried out an initial rough mapping. Aerial photos by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. from 1956 to 1957 were used for mapping purposes in 1959. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the French psychiatrist Philippe Pinel (1745-1826), to whom the main features of the No restraint treatment concept go back.

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