Findlay Point () is a point northwest of Palmer Bay on the north coast of Coronation Island, in the

South Orkney Islands The South Orkney Islands are a group of islands in the Southern Ocean, about north-east of the tip of the Antarctic PeninsulaGeorge Powell, British sealer, and Captain Nathaniel Palmer, American sealer, and roughly charted by Powell. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1956–58 and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for

Alexander George Findlay Alexander George Findlay (1812–1875) was an English geographer and hydrographer. His services to geography have been compared with those of Aaron Arrowsmith and August Heinrich Petermann. Life Findlay was born in London, 6 January 1812, a de ...

, an English geographer and hydrographer who compiled a long series of nautical directories and charts, including the South Orkney Islands.

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Headlands of the South Orkney Islands {{SouthOrkneys-geo-stub