Sherlac Point
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 45 ′ S , 62 ° 39 ′ W | |
| location | Rongé Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Waters | Errera Canal | |
The Sherlac Point is a headland at the southeastern end of Rongé Island before the Danco Coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899), led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery, mapped it and named it Cap Charles after Charles François Alexandre Lemaire (1863–1925), a Belgian Africa explorer and district commissioner in Belgian- Congo . In order to avoid confusion with Charles Point in Hughes Bay, about 100 km northeast, the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee decided in 1960 to rename it in the form of an anagram of the name Charles .
Web links
- Sherlac Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sherlac Point on geographic.org (English)