Quartermain Point
| Quartermain Point | ||
 Topographic map of Moubray Bay with Quartermain Point (top right) |
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| Geographical location | ||
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 3 ′ S , 170 ° 8 ′ E | |
| location | Viktorialand ( East Antarctica ) | |
| coast | Borchgrevink coast | |
| Waters | Moubray Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Burnette Glacier | |
The Quartermain Point is a prominent headland at the Borchgrevink Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It marks the eastern limit of the mouth of the Burnette Glacier in the northern part of Moubray Bay between Helm Point and Cape Roget .
Participants of a 1957-1958 campaign of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named the headland after the New Zealand historian Lester Bowden Quartermain (1895-1973), founder and president of the New Zealand Antarctic Society .
Web links
- Quartermain Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Quartermain Point on geographic.org (English)