Tutton Point () is the southwestern point of
Liard Island
Liard Island is a mountainous island, long, wide and rising to , situated in the north-central portion of Hanusse Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was discovered and named by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, un ...
in
Hanusse Bay,
Graham Land. This point is a landing place, the start of a route into the interior of the
island. Mapped from air photos taken by
Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition
The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.
Background
Finn Ronne led the RARE which was the final privately sponsored exp ...
(RARE) (1947–48) and
Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) (1956–57). Named by
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for
Alfred E.H. Tutton Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton (22 August 1864 – 14 July 1938) was a British inspector of schools who was a crystallographer in his spare time. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1899.
Tutton was born in Cheadle Moseley, Cheshire, to Ven ...
(1864–1938), British mineralogist, author of ''The Natural History of Ice and Snow Illustrated from the Alps''.
Headlands of Graham Land
Loubet Coast
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