Oberbauer Point (, ‘Nos Oberbauer’ \'nos 'o-ber-ba-u-er\) is the point on the west side of the entrance to

Gerritsz Bay Gerritsz Bay (, ) is the 4 km wide bay indenting for 2.15 km the north coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It is entered east of Oberbauer Point and west of the northwest extremity of the small peninsula form ...

on the north coast of

Anvers Island Anvers Island or Antwerp Island or Antwerpen Island or Isla Amberes is a high, mountainous island long, the largest in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. It was discovered by John Biscoe in 1832 and named in 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expe ...

in the

Palmer Archipelago Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends from Tower Island in the north to Anvers ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...

. The point is named after the

Austrian Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen * Austrian German dialect * Something associated with the country Austria, for example: ** Austria-Hungary ** Austria ...

Bulgarian artist Joseph Oberbauer (1853-1926).

Location

Oberbauer Point is located at , which is 5.67 km west of Cape Grönland and 13.52 km northeast of

Quinton Point Quinton Point () is a point at the north side of the entrance to Perrier Bay, forming the northwest extremity of Goten Peninsula on the northwest coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. First charted by the French Antarct ...

. British mapping in 1980.

Maps

British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1980.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

Antarctic Place-names Commission The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bulgaria), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. The Commis ...

. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Oberbauer Point.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

External links

Oberbauer Point.
Copernix satellite image Headlands of the Palmer Archipelago Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{AnversIsland-geo-stub