Spring point
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Coordinates | 64 ° 18 ′ S , 61 ° 3 ′ W | |
location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
coast | Danco coast | |
Waters | Hughes Bay ( Gerlache Street ) | |
Waters 2 | Brialmont Bay |
The Spring Point ( French Cap W. Spring ) is a headland on the Danco coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It delimits the entrance from Hughes Bay to Brialmont Bay to the south .
Participants of the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery discovered them and made a rough map. De Gerlache named it after the Belgian chemist Walthère Victor Spring (1848–1911), a member of the expedition commission.
Web links
- Spring Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Spring Point on geographic.org (English)