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Stinker Point is a headland south of Table Bay and northwest of 
Piperkov Point
Piperkov Point ( bg, Пиперков нос, ‘Piperkov Nos’ \pi-'per-kov 'nos\) is the rocky northwest entrance point of Krastanov Cove on the southwest coast of Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands in Antarctica. The feature is “na ...
on the west coast of Elephant Island
Elephant Island is an ice-covered, mountainous island off the coast of Antarctica in the outer reaches of the South Shetland Islands, in the Southern Ocean. The island is situated north-northeast of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, west-so ...
, in the South Shetland Islands
The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...
of Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest co ...
. It was mapped by the UK Joint Services Expedition to Elephant Island, 1970–71, and named after the southern giant petrel
The southern giant petrel (''Macronectes giganteus''), also known as the Antarctic giant petrel, giant fulmar, stinker, and stinkpot, is a large seabird of the southern oceans. Its distribution overlaps broadly with the similar northern giant pe ...
s which breed there, "stinker" being an old sailors' name for the bird.
Important Bird Area
The point is part of thePoint Wordie
Point Wordie is a headland on the western coast of Elephant Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. The site is named after James Wordie, a Scottish geologist who participated in Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic E ...
Important Bird Area
An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.
IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife Int ...
, identified as such by BirdLife International
BirdLife International is a global partnership of non-governmental organizations that strives to conserve birds and their habitats. BirdLife International's priorities include preventing extinction of bird species, identifying and safeguarding ...
because of its importance as a breeding site for seabird
Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment. While seabirds vary greatly in lifestyle, behaviour and physiology, they often exhibit striking convergent evolution, as the same envir ...
s, especially chinstrap penguins.
References
Headlands of the South Shetland Islands Elephant Island Important Bird Areas of Antarctica Penguin colonies Seabird colonies {{ElephantIsland-geo-stub