Sartorius Point
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 Map of Greenwich Island with Sartorius Point |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 34 ′ S , 59 ° 39 ′ W | |
| location | Greenwich Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
The Sartorius Point is a headland on the south coast of Greenwich Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located 3 km east of Ephraim Bluff .
The first seal hunters in the waters around the South Shetland Islands in the early 1820s originally named the headland as Point Hardy . Later this was incorrectly transferred to Fort Point to the east . In order to avoid confusion with objects with the same name, the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee decided in 1961 to rename it. The template for this is the naming of Greenwich Island as Sartorius Island by the British navigator James Weddell , whose namesake is the British Admiral George Sartorius (1790-1885).
Web links
- Sartorius Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sartorius Point on geographic.org (English)