Vanssay Point
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 4 ′ S , 64 ° 1 ′ W | |
| location | Booth Island , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Waters | Port Charcot | |
The Vanssay Point ( French Pointe de Vanssay de Blavous ) is a headland in the west of Booth Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the northern branch of a small peninsula that extends into Port Charcot .
Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903–1905) were the first to map the headland. The expedition leader and polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot named it after the French hydrographer Pierre Marie Joseph Félix Antoine de Vanssay de Blavous (1869–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated the French designation into English in 1952 in an abbreviated form.
Web links
- Vanssay Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vanssay Point on geographic.org (English)