Rothera Point

	Rothera Point
	; The Rothera station on Rothera Point
	Geographical location
Coordinates	67 ° 34 ′ S , 68 ° 8 ′ W Coordinates: 67 ° 34 ′ S , 68 ° 8 ′ W
location	Adelaide Island ( West Antarctica )
Waters	Cole Channel
Waters 2	Ryder Bay

The Rothera Point is a headland in the southeastern Adelaide Island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is on the east side of the entrance to Ryder Bay .

Participants of the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after John Michael Rothera (* 1935), geodesist of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey at the station on Horseshoe Island in 1957 and the station on Detaille Island in the following year. The headland has been the location of the British Rothera station since 1975 .

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