
Prospect Point is a
headland
A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water. It is a type of promontory. A headland of considerable size often is called a cape.Whittow, Jo ...
at the west extremity of
Velingrad Peninsula
Velingrad Peninsula (, ) is the ice-covered peninsula projecting 22.5 km in northwest direction from Graham Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula. Bounded by Barilari Bay to the northeast and Holtedahl Bay to the southwest, and separat ...
on
Graham Coast
Graham Coast is the portion of the west coast of Graham Land in 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 Palm ...
in
Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee ...
, south of
Ferin Head and immediately east of the
Fish Islands. Roughly charted by the
British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under Rymill, 1934–37. Photographed by
Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956–57. The name was suggested in 1957 by
E. P. Arrowsmith, Governor of the
Falkland Islands
The Falkland Islands (; ), commonly referred to as The Falklands, is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and from Cape Dub ...
.
Station J
Prospect Point was the location of the British research Station J. The hut, known as Penola, was occupied from February 2, 1957 to February 23, 1959 and the researchers carried out searching in the survey and geology. The station was removed in April 2004.
Station J
''British Antarctic Survey''
See also
* List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
* List of Antarctic research stations
* List of Antarctic field camps
References
External links
SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
Headlands of Graham Land
Graham Coast
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