🏔️ Stuart Point

Antarctica · Antarctica · 66.47°S, 125.17°E

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Stuart Point is an ice-covered point at the east side of the entrance to Maury Bay. Delineated from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946–47), and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Frederick D. Stuart, captain's clerk on the sloop Peacock of the United States Exploring Expedition under Wilkes (1838–42), who assisted Wilkes with correction of the survey data obtained by the expedition.

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Quick facts

CountryAntarctica
Continent / regionAntarctica
Coordinates (approx.)66.47°S, 125.17°E · view on map

Stuart Point is located in Antarctica, in Antarctica.

More headlands in Antarctica

Ablation Point · Abrupt Point · Access Point (Antarctica) · Ackley Point · Aguda Point · Almond Point · Andreassen Point · Andrews Point · Andrus Point · Angot Point.

Coordinates approximate. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.

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