Redondo Point
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Redondo Point Moot Point |
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 12 ′ S , 64 ° 5 ′ W | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| coast | Graham coast | |
| Waters | Penola Strait | |
The Redondo Point ( Spanish Cabo Redondo for round cape ; in the United Kingdom Moot Point , English for disputed headland ) is a small headland on the Graham coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It protrudes west of the Blanchard Ridge and north of the mouth of the Wiggins Glacier on the Kiev Peninsula into the Penola Strait .
Scientists from an Argentine Antarctic expedition that ran from 1956 to 1957 gave it its descriptive name. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred this designation in 1965 in an adapted partial translation into English. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee , however, named it in 1959 after the fact that from 1909 until then it was disputed whether the headland offered a suitable access point to the interior.
Web links
- Redondo Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Redondo Point on geographic.org (English)