Steinheil Point

	Steinheil Point
	Geographical location
Coordinates	64 ° 51 ′ S , 62 ° 40 ′ W Coordinates: 64 ° 51 ′ S , 62 ° 40 ′ W
location	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
coast	Danco coast
Waters	Andvord Bay

The crystal healing Point is a headland at the Danco Coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 8 km southeast of Duthiers Point on the west bank of Andvord Bay .

Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899), led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery , made the first rough mapping of the headland. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on September 23, 1960 after the German optician and entrepreneur Hugo Adolph Steinheil (1832-1893), who in 1866 independently of the German-British optician John Henry Dallmeyer (1830-1983) an Aplanaten and 1891 one Had developed a telephoto lens .

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