Spear Cutter Point
| Spear Cutter Point | ||
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 46 ′ S , 66 ° 9 ′ W | |
| location | Renaud Island , Biscoe Islands | |
| Waters | Malmgren Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Southern ocean | |
The spear Schneider Point is a headland on the west side of Renaud Island in the archipelago of Biscoe Islands off the west coast of the West Antarctic Graham Lands . It marks the west side of the entrance to Malmgren Bay .
The headland was first shown on an Argentine map from 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after the Danish meteorologist Christian Julius Hansen Speerschneider (1864-1938), from 1910 to 1934 author of the annual reports of the Danmarks Meteorologiske Institute on sea ice development .
Web links
- Speerschneider Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Speerschneider Point on geographic.org (English)