Race Point is the point on the north side of Smylie Channel forming the south extremity of

Weddell Island Weddell Island () is one of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, lying off the southwest extremity of West Falkland. It is situated west-northwest of South Georgia Island, north of Livingston Island, northeast of Cape Horn, northeast ...

in 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 ...

.Race Point.
Falkland Islands. GeoNames Geographical Database The point is located at , which is 26.7 km south-southwest of Swan Point, 3.5 km west-northwest of neighbouring

Dyke Island Dyke Island (former name ''Barnards Island'') is one of the Falkland Islands, lying between Weddell Island, and West Falkland West Falkland () is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It is a hilly island, separat ...

, 1.8 km north of

West Island The West Island (, ) is the unofficial name given to the city, towns and boroughs at the western end of the Island of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada. It is generally considered to consist of the Lakeshore municipalities of Lachine (specific ...

and 4 km north-northeast of Orford Hill,

West Falkland West Falkland () is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It is a hilly island, separated from East Falkland by the Falkland Sound. Its area is , 37% of the total area of the islands. Its coastline is long. Popula ...

Maps

* ''The Falkland Islands''. Scale 1:401280 map. London: Edward Stanford, 1901 * Falkland Islands Explorer Map. Scale 1:365000. Ocean Explorer Maps, 2007 * Falklands Topographic Map Series. Scale 1:50000, 29 sheets. DOS 453, 1961-1979
Falkland Islands.
Scale 1:643000 Map. DOS 906. Edition 3-OS, 1998
''Map 500k--xm20-4''.
1:500000 map of Weddell Island and part of West Falkland. Russian Army Maps (for the world)

Scale 1:1500000 chart. Gps Nautical Charts, 2010
Illustrated Map of Weddell Island

Notes

References

* B. Stonehouse (ed.). ''Encyclopedia of Antarctica and the Southern Oceans''. Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. 404 pp. * C.H. Barnard
''A Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of Capt. Charles H. Barnard, in a Recent Voyage Round the World, Including an Account of His Residence for Two Years on An Uninhabited Island''.
New York: J.P. Callender, 1836 * P.P. King and R. Fitzroy
''The South America Pilot''.
''Part II. From the Rio de la Plata to the Bay of Panama, including Magellan Strait, the Falkland, and Galapagos Islands''. Fifth Edition. London: Printed for the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, 1860. pp. 116–118

External links

Weddell Island Official Website
* NASA Johnson Space Center, 30 April 2005 Headlands of the Falkland Islands Geography of Weddell Island {{Weddell-Island-geo-stub