Turquet Point
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 3 ′ S , 63 ° 56 ′ W | |
| location | Booth Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Waters | Lemaire Channel | |
| Waters 2 | Southern ocean | |
The Turquet Point (English; French Pointe Turquet ) is a headland on the northern foothills of Booth Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It marks the western boundary of the northern entrance to the Lemaire Canal .
The first sighting probably goes back to the German polar explorer Eduard Dallmann , who sailed these waters between 1873 and 1874 with the auxiliary sailor Groenland . Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) mapped the headland. The expedition leader and polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1937) named it after the French naturalist Jean Turquet (1867-1945), who was involved in the expedition. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated the name into English in 1952.
Web links
- Turquet Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Turquet Point on geographic.org (English)