Terror Point
| Terror Point | ||
 Map of Ross Island with Terror Point to the southeast |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 41 ′ S , 168 ° 13 ′ E | |
| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Waters | Ross Ice Shelf | |
The terrorist Point is a headland in the southeastern East Antarctic Ross Island . It lies below and southwest of the summit of Mount Terror and 6.5 km west-northwest of Cape MacKay . It is completely enclosed by the ice masses of the Ross Ice Shelf .
Participants in the British Discovery Expedition (1901–1904) headed by the polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott named it after the HMS Terror , one of two ships of the British polar explorer James Clark Ross on his Antarctic expedition (1839– 1843).
Web links
- Terror Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Terror Point on geographic.org (English)