Rabot Point

Rabot Point
Geographical location
Coordinates	64 ° 16 ′  S , 57 ° 18 ′  W Coordinates: 64 ° 16 ′  S , 57 ° 18 ′  W
location	James Ross Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica )
Waters	Gourdon glacier
Waters 2	Hobbs glacier

The Rabot Point is a towering and rocky headland on the east coast of the West Antarctic James Ross Island . It lies between the mouths of the Gourdon and Hobbs glaciers in Markham Bay .

The Swedish geologist Otto Nordenskjöld , head of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901-1903), gave a small glacier immediately west of The Watchtower on the south side of the island between the Cabo Depot and Cape Foster the name Rabot Glacier ( Spanish Glaciar Rabot ). The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey decided after measurements in 1953 that this glacier was too insignificant to be named. In order to preserve Nordenskjöld's name in a different form, the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee transferred it to the headland described here in 1957. It is named after the French geographer Charles Rabot (1856–1944).

Web links

• Rabot Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Rabot Point on geographic.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1269 (English).
   Rabot, glaciar in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish). Accessed February 16, 2020.