Tioga Point

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Tioga Point
Geographical location
Tioga Point (South Orkney Islands)
Tioga Point
Coordinates 60 ° 43 ′  S , 45 ° 40 ′  W Coordinates: 60 ° 43 ′  S , 45 ° 40 ′  W
location Signy Island ( South Orkney Islands )
Waters Weddell Sea
Waters 2 Port Jebsen

The Tioga Point is a headland on the west coast of Signy Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It marks the northern limit of the entrance to Port Jebsen .

The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey took from 1947 to 1950 surveys before. Aerial photographs were taken in 1968 by the Royal Navy . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2004 after the Norwegian factory ship Tioga , built in 1890 , which operated for whaling in the waters around the South Orkney Islands between 1911 and 1912 and sank in a storm near Port Jebsen on February 4, 1913.

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