Eckener Point

Location of Pefaur (Ventimiglia) Peninsula on Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula.

Eckener Point (64°26′S 61°36′W / 64.433°S 61.600°W / -64.433; -61.600Coordinates: 64°26′S 61°36′W / 64.433°S 61.600°W / -64.433; -61.600) is a point marking both the northeast side of the entrance to Charlotte Bay and the west side of the entrance to Latinka Cove, and forming the western extremity of Pefaur (Ventimiglia) Peninsula on the west coast of Graham Land. It was first roughly charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897–99. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for Hugo Eckener, a German pioneer of airship aviation who was president of Aeroarctic, an international society for exploration of the Arctic with airships, 1929–37. He piloted the Graf Zeppelin for more than 600 flights including a major Arctic flight in 1931.^[1]

Map

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1978.

References

• SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Eckener Point" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).