Marescot Point is a small but distinctive low rocky point projecting north from 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...

, 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km) east of Thanaron Point

Thanaron Point

Thanaron Point is a rock point 8 nautical miles east-northeast of Cape Roquemaurel, Trinity Peninsula. Named in 1838 by the French expedition under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville after Lieutenant Charles Thanaron of the expedition ship Zelee....

. This feature is a reidentification of Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville

Jules Dumont d'Urville

Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville was a French explorer, naval officer and rear admiral, who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica.-Childhood:Dumont was born at Condé-sur-Noireau...

's original "Cap Marescot," named after Jacques Marescot du Thilleul (1808–39), ensign on the Astrolabe during d'Urville's expedition (1837–40), who died during the voyage.

Map

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