Bibby Point
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Bibby Point is a steep rocky headland with snow slopes falling away inland, at the northeast corner of Brandy Bay
, James Ross Island
. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
for John S. Bibby
, Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey geologist at Hope Bay
, 1958–59.
Brandy Bay
Brandy Bay is a bay wide on the northwest coast of James Ross Island, entered west of Bibby Point. It was probably first seen by Otto Nordenskiöld in 1903, and was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1945...
, James Ross Island
James Ross Island
James Ross Island is a large island off the southeast side and near the northeastern extremity of Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Prince Gustav Channel. Rising to , it is irregularly shaped and extends in a north-south direction. It was charted in October 1903 by the Swedish...
. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands...
for John S. Bibby
John S. Bibby
John S Bibby B.S.c. is a British geologist. He was a member of the British Antarctic Survey which undertook four major geological surveys in the James Ross Island Group in 1958 and 1959. The first survey took 69 days in June–August 1958, and served as a reconnaissance of Bald Head, Botany Bay and...
, Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey geologist at Hope Bay
Hope Bay
Hope Bay on Trinity Peninsula, is long and wide, indenting the tip of Antarctic Peninsula and opening on Antarctic Sound....
, 1958–59.