Coupvent Point () is a point, with several off-lying rocks, projecting north from

Trinity Peninsula Trinity Peninsula is the northernmost part of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends northeastward for about 130 km (80 mi) to Cape Dubouzet from an imaginary line connecting Cape Kater on the north-west coast and Cape Longing on the sou ...

, southwest of Lafarge Rocks.

Location

Coupvent Point is near the east end of the north shore of

, which itself is the tip of the

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica. ...

. It faces the

Bransfield Strait Bransfield Strait or Fleet Sea () is a body of water about wide extending for in a general northeast – southwest direction between the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula. History The strait was named in about 1825 by James W ...

. It is east of the

Duroch Islands The Duroch Islands () are a group of islands and rocks which extend over an area of about , centred about off Cape Legoupil on the north coast of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. The islands are close to Chile's Base General Bernardo O'Higgins R ...

and Schmidt Peninsula, north of the

Mott Snowfield Mott Snowfield () is a snowfield in the northeast of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica, between Laclavère Plateau and the Antarctic Sound. Location Mott Snowfield is in Graham Land in the north of the Trinity Peninsula, which forms the tip of th ...

and west of Caleta Thornton and Prime Head. Nomad Rock, Lafarge Rocks and Casy Island are north of the point.

Name

The name "Roche Coupvent" (Coupvent Rock) was given by Captain

Jules Dumont d'Urville Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (; 23 May 1790 – 8 May 1842) was a French List of explorers, explorer and French Navy, naval officer who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica. As a botanist an ...

to a feature in the vicinity. The present name revives the d'Urville naming, given for Aimé Coupvent-Desbois, an officer on the ''Zélée'' and later the ''Astrolabe''.

Nearby features

Nearby features, from west to east, include:

Kevin Islands

. A cluster of small islands and rocks which lie close to the northern coast of Trinity Peninsula, midway between

Halpern Point The Duroch Islands () are a group of islands and rocks which extend over an area of about , centred about off Cape Legoupil on the north coast of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. The islands are close to Chile's Base General Bernardo O'Higgins Ri ...

and Coupvent Point. Named by US-ACAN for Kevin M. Scott, member of geological party from the University of Wisconsin (USARP), who carried out independent studies in Gerlache Strait, 1961-62.

Nomad Rock

. An isolated rock in Bransfield Strait, off the north coast of Trinity Peninsula and northeast of Cape Legoupil. So named by UK-APC because of confusion about the identity of geographic points along this coast, and because of the wandering of features and names on charts of this vicinity.

Lafarge Rocks

. One large and several smaller rocks lying northwest of Casy Island and west of Prime Head, the north tip of Antarctic Peninsula. Discovered by a French expedition, 1837–40, under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, and named by him for Ensign Antoine Pavin de la Farge of the expedition ship ''Zélée''. They were recharted by the FIDS in 1946.

Casy Island

. The largest feature in a group of small islands lying southeast of Lafarge Rocks and northeast of Coupvent Point. Discovered and named by a French expedition under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, 1837-40.

Caleta Thornton

. A cove located about southwest of Prime Head. The name corresponds to the surname of 1st Lieutenant George Thornton M., of the AGS. "Yelcho" of the Chilean Navy, who participated in the Antarctic hydrographic work carried out by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition of 1971. It is called Caleta Mercado by Argentina.

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