Boreal Point
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Boreal Point is a headland forming the west side of Rockpepper Bay
, along the north coast of Joinville Island
. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1953–54. The feature was so named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
because of its position on the north ("boreal") coast of Joinville Island.
Rockpepper Bay
Rockpepper Bay is a bay 3.5 nautical miles wide at its entrance, lying east of Boreal Point along the north coast of Joinville Island. Surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1953-54. So named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee because of the very many small...
, along the north coast of Joinville Island
Joinville Island
Joinville Island is the largest island of the Joinville Island group, about long in an east-west direction and wide, lying off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by the Antarctic Sound...
. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1953–54. The feature was so 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...
because of its position on the north ("boreal") coast of Joinville Island.