From Tunzelman Point
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 18 ′ S , 170 ° 11 ′ E | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| coast | Pennell coast | |
| Waters | Robertson Bay | |
The From Tunzelman Point is a headland on the Pennell Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . On Ridley Beach it is 1.5 km southwest of Cape Adare on the west side of the Adare Peninsula .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them after Alexander von Tunzelman (1877-1957), one of four New Zealanders in the Antarctic expedition (1894-1895) led by the Norwegian Henryk Bull , on January 24, 1895 not far from this Headland people supposedly had set foot on the Antarctic continent for the first time .
Web links
- From Tunzelman Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- From Tunzelman Point on geographic.org (English)