Poynter (other)
Poynter is an English surname. Poynter may also refer to: * Poynter Institute, an American journalism school * Poynter Col, Antarctica * Poynter Hill, Antarctica See also * Pointer (other) Pointer may refer to: Places * Pointer, Kentucky * Pointers, New Jersey * Pointers Airport, Wasco County, Oregon, United States * The Pointers, a pair of rocks off Antarctica People with the name * Pointer (surname), a surname (including a list ...

Poynter
Poynter is an English occupational surname for the maker of cord that fastened doublet with hose (clothing). The name derives from the Middle English "poynte" and originally from the Latin "puncta", meaning to pierce. Poynter may also be an Anglicised variant of the Huguenot name 'Pointier'. Notable people * Andrew Poynter (born 1987), English-born Irish cricketer *Beulah Poynter (1883–1960), American actress and author * Dougie Poynter (born 1987), English musician *Edward Poynter (1836–1919), British painter * Jane Poynter, American author, businesswoman, and environmentalist *James I. Poynter (1916–1950), United States Medal of Honor recipient * Nelson Poynter (1903–1978), American publisher * Rikki Poynter (born 1991), deaf American YouTuber and activist * Robert Poynter (born 1937), American sprinter *Stuart Poynter (born 1990), English-born Irish cricketer * William Poynter (1762–1827, English Catholic bishop *William A. Poynter (1848–1909), the 14th Governor o ...
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Poynter Institute
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a non-profit journalism school and research organization in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. The school is the owner of the ''Tampa Bay Times'' newspaper and the International Fact-Checking Network. It also operates PolitiFact. History Founding The school began on May 29, 1975, when Nelson Poynter, the owner and chairman of the '' St. Petersburg Times'' (now the ''Tampa Bay Times'') and Times Publishing Company, announced that he planned to start a small journalism school called the ''Modern Media Institute''. (The name of the school was changed to the Poynter Institute almost a decade later.) In 1977, Nelson Poynter willed ownership of the Times Publishing Company to the Institute so that after his death the school would become the owner of the ''St. Petersburg Times''. Poynter died on June 15, 1978, at the age of 74. He had become ill in his office just a few hours after he helped break ground for the new St. Petersbur ...
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Poynter Col
Poynter Col () is a snow-filled col, over 700 m high, joining Poynter Hill and Ivory Pinnacles in northern Graham Land, Antarctica. The col is 9 nautical miles (17 km) east-southeast of Cape Kjellman Cape Kjellman () is a cape forming the west extremity of Belitsa Peninsula and marking the east side of the entrance to Charcot Bay, on the west side of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. It was first charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 190 .... It was charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) from Hope Bay in 1948. Poynter Col was named in 1953 by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC), by association with Poynter Hill. *Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory ID: 110699 *United States Gazetteer ID: 130323 References External linksIvory Pinnacles and Poynter Col at Mapcarta — Interactive map!-- link up as of 2015-08-29 --> Davis Coast Mountain passes of Graham Land {{DavisCoast-geo-stub ...
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Poynter Hill
Poynter Hill is a conspicuous hill, height , standing 8 nautical miles (15 km) east-southeast of Cape Kjellman on the west side of Trinity Peninsula. Charted in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, it was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1950 after Charles William Poynter, master's mate, who accompanied Edward Bransfield on the brig ''Williams'' in January 1820 when explorations were made in the South Shetland Islands and Bransfield Strait. Poynter Hill is separated from nearby Ivory Pinnacles by the 700-metre pass Poynter Col Poynter Col () is a snow-filled col, over 700 m high, joining Poynter Hill and Ivory Pinnacles in northern Graham Land, Antarctica. The col is 9 nautical miles (17 km) east-southeast of Cape Kjellman Cape Kjellman () is a cape formi ..., which derived its name from that of the hill. Map Trinity Peninsula.Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British ...
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