Edholm Point () is the northwestern point of Krogh Island in the Biscoe Islands,

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forming the west side of the entrance to Transmarisca Bay. The point was mapped from air photos by the

Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies and the Antarctic peninsula which took place in the 1955–56 and 1956–57 southern summers. Funded by the Colonial ...

(1956–57), and was named by the

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for Otto Edholm, a British physiologist who was Head of the Division of Human Physiology of the National Institute for Medical Research since its foundation in 1949, and who specialized in studies of the effects of cold on man. In 2021 one of Otto Edholm's grandchildren set up an ice-cream company called Edholm Point Ice-Cream.
www.edholmpointicecream.com
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Headlands of the Biscoe Islands {{Biscoes-geo-stub