Valdivia Point

	Valdivia Point
	Geographical location
Coordinates	64 ° 21 ′ S , 61 ° 23 ′ W Coordinates: 64 ° 21 ′ S , 61 ° 23 ′ W
location	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
coast	Danco coast
Waters	Hughes Bay
Waters 2	Salvesen Cove

The Valdivia Point is a headland at the Danco Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . In Hughes Bay it marks the northwest side of the entrance to Salvesen Cove .

Participants of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under the direction of Otto Nordenskjöld mapped it and erroneously named it Valdivia Island . Aerial photographs of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition from 1956 and 1957 cleared up this error, so that the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee made an adaptation of the name in 1960. It is named after the Valdivia , research ship on the Valdivia expedition (1898–1899) under the direction of Carl Chun .

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