Shoemaker Point () is a point 0.5 miles (0.8 km) east of
Jordan Cove
Jordan Cove () is a small cove which is the principal indentation in the south side of Bird Island, South Georgia, Bird Island, off the west end of South Georgia Island, South Georgia, near Antarctica.
It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey ...
on the south side of
Bird Island,
South Georgia
South Georgia is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around east of the Falkland Islands. ...
, just south of
Sooty Cove. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951-57 and 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) in 1963. "Shoemaker" is an old sailors' name for the Cape hen (Procellaria aequinoctialis), a bird which breeds on Bird Island.
Headlands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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