View Point

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Location of Trinity Peninsula.

View Point (63°33′S 57°22′W / 63.550°S 57.367°W / -63.550; -57.367Coordinates: 63°33′S 57°22′W / 63.550°S 57.367°W / -63.550; -57.367) is an eastern tip of a promontory, 150 m, forming the west side of the entrance to Duse Bay on the south coast of Trinity Peninsula. Situated 6.79 km east of Skomlya Hill and 6.45 km southeast of Boil Point. Discovered by a party under J. Gunnar Andersson of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04. So named by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) following their survey of the area in 1945 because from this promontory, good panoramic photographs were obtained.

Map

  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

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