Ula Point
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 5 ′ S , 57 ° 8 ′ W | |
| location | James Ross Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Waters | Erebus and Terror Golf | |
The Ula Point is a low and icy headland on the northeast coast of James Ross Island off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 8 km northwest of Cape Gage .
Participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under the direction of Otto Nordenskjöld discovered them and made a rough map. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey re- mapped them in 1945. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1957 after the place of birth Ula of Anton Oluf Olsen, boatswain on the Antarctic expedition near Nordenskjöld.
Web links
- Ula Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ula Point on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 1608-1609 (English).