Spit Point (Greenwich Island)
| Spit Point | ||
 Map of Greenwich Island with Spit Point (bottom center) |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 32 ′ S , 59 ° 47 ′ W | |
| location | Greenwich Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
| Waters | McFarlane Strait | |
| Waters 2 | Yankee Harbor | |
The Spit Point ( English for spit point ) is a 500 m long headland on the southeast coast of Greenwich Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It forms the end of Provadiya Hook and the south side of the entrance to Yankee Harbor .
The headland was already known to the first sealers in the waters around the South Shetland Islands. It is roughly recorded on a map of the British sealer captain George Powell (1794-1824) from 1822. Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations carried out a new mapping in 1935. This gave the headland its descriptive name.
Web links
- Spit Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Spit Point on geographic.org (English)