Turret Point () is a point marked by conspicuous high rock stacks, forming the east limit of
King George Bay on the south coast of
King George Island, 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 ...
. The point was charted in 1937 by
DI personnel on the ''
Discovery II'' who gave the name
Turret Rocks, but this has led to confusion with a group of rocks lying close offshore. 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) recommended in 1960 that since the feature originally named is a land feature, the term point be used to avoid confusion and ambiguity.
Headlands of King George Island (South Shetland Islands)
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