Jade Point
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Jade Point is a gently sloping rocky point forming the south limit of Eyrie Bay
Eyrie Bay
Eyrie Bay is a bay, 2.5 miles wide at its mouth and extending 3 miles inland, lying north of Jade Point, Trinity Peninsula. So named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee because of the proximity to Eagle Island.-Map:...

, Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC). The lower slopes of the point are permanently sheathed in greenish-tinged ice, which suggested the descriptive name
Jade
Jade is an ornamental stone.The term jade is applied to two different metamorphic rocks that are made up of different silicate minerals:...

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Map

  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
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