Spallanzani Point

	Spallanzani Point
	Geographical location
Coordinates	64 ° 8 ′ S , 62 ° 0 ′ W Coordinates: 64 ° 8 ′ S , 62 ° 0 ′ W
location	Brabant Island , Palmer Archipelago
Waters	Gerlache Street
Waters 2	Hill Bay

The Spallanzani Point is a headland in the east of the Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It marks the eastern extension of the Albena Peninsula and the northern limit of the entrance to Hill Bay .

The cape was probably first sighted during the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery . Aerial photographs taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. made between 1956 and 1957, were used for mapping in 1959. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the Italian polymath Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729–1799), who in 1780 was the first to correctly interpret the digestive process.

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