Roullin Point
| Roullin Point | ||
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 7 ′ S , 64 ° 1 ′ W | |
| location | Booth Island ( Wilhelm Archipelago , West Antarctica ) | |
| Waters | Penola Strait | |
| Waters 2 | Lemaire Channel | |
The Roullin Point ( French Pointe Roullin ) is a headland on the southern foothills of Booth Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It marks the western boundary of the southern entrance to the Lemaire Canal .
The first sighting probably goes back to the German polar explorer Eduard Dallmann , who sailed these waters between 1873 and 1874 with the auxiliary sailor Groenland . Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) mapped the headland. The expedition leader and polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot named it after the French frigate captain Adrien Paul Émile Roullin (1859 - unknown). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated this designation into English in 1952.
Web links
- Roullin Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Roullin Point on geographic.org (English)