Poynter Col
| Poynter Col (mountain saddle) |
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| Compass direction | Northeast | southwest | |
| height | 700 m | ||
| Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |||
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| Coordinates | 63 ° 48 '36 " S , 59 ° 8' 38" W | ||
The Poynter Col is a snowy and 700 m high mountain pass in the shape of a mountain saddle in the Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It runs 15 km east-southeast of Cape Kjellman between Poynter Hill and the Ivory Pinnacles .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveys in 1948. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1953 based on the name of the hill of the same name. Its namesake is the British seaman Charles Wittit Poynter (1797-1878), master's mate of Edward Bransfield on the brig Williams , with whom they had advanced to the South Shetland Islands and Bransfield Strait in 1820 .
Web links
- Poynter Col in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Poynter Col on geographic.org (English)