First point
| First point | ||
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 57 ′ S , 64 ° 47 ′ W | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| coast | Graham coast | |
| Waters | Barilari Bay | |
The Vorweg Point is a headland on the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the northeast of the Velingrad Peninsula , it is northwest of Huitfeldt Point on the southwestern bank of the Barilari Bay .
Participants of the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill mapped them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in the wrong spelling in 1959 after the German skiing pioneer Oscar Vorwerg (1841-1916), author of the 1893 book Das Schneeschulaufen , probably the first manual of skiing .
Web links
- First point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- First point on geographic.org (English)