Sheppard_Point

Sheppard Point

Sheppard Point (63°22′S 56°58′W) is a point marking the north side of the entrance to Hope Bay, at the northeast end of Antarctic Peninsula. It was discovered by a party under J. Gunnar Andersson of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, who wintered at Hope Bay in 1903. It was named by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) for Robert Carl Sheppard, master mariner of two ships, Eagle (1944–1945) and Trepassey (1945–1946), chartered for the secret British Antarctic expedition Operation Tabarin.

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Sheppard Point". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.  Edit this at Wikidata



Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Sheppard_Point, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.