Nebles Point () is a point forming the west side of the entrance to
Collins Harbor Collins Harbour () is a bay indenting the south coast of King George Island immediately east of Fildes Peninsula, in the South Shetland Islands
The South Shetland Islands are a group of List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands, Antar ...
in the southwest part of
King George Island,
South Shetland Islands
The South Shetland Islands are a group of List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands, Antarctic islands located in the Drake Passage with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the n ...
. On his chart of 1825,
James Weddell
James Weddell (24 August 1787 – 9 September 1834) was a British sailor, navigator and seal hunter who in February 1823 sailed to latitude of 74° 15′ S—a record 7.69 degrees or 532 statute miles south of the Antar ...
, Master,
Royal Navy
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, applied the name
Nebles Harbour to Collins Harbor, or possibly to an anchorage close north of
Ardley Island
Ardley Island is an island long, lying in Maxwell Bay close off the south-west end of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It was charted as a peninsula in 1935 by Discovery Investigations personnel of the '' Disco ...
; the detail of this part of his map cannot be interpreted with certainty. Nebles Point was assigned by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
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(UK-APC) in 1960 in order to preserve Weddell's naming in the area. The point lies between the two possible positions of his name.
References
Headlands of King George Island (South Shetland Islands)
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