Pinel Point () is a point lying 5 nautical miles (9 km) northeast of
D'Ursel Point
D'Ursel Point () is a headland which marks the south side of the entrance to Buls Bay on the southeast coast of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago.
Avicenna Bay sits approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the southwest.
History
It was ...
on the east side of
Brabant Island, in the
Palmer Archipelago. First roughly charted by the
Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Gerlache. Photographed by
Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956–57, and mapped from these photos in 1959. Named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...
(UK-APC) for
Philippe Pinel (1745–1826), French physician who held advanced views on investigation of disease and first succeeded in abolishing severe physical restraints on mental cases, in 1796.
Headlands of the Palmer Archipelago
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