Triton Point is a rocky point forming the east end of the high ridge separating Venus and Neptune Glaciers on the east coast of Alexander Island

Alexander Island

Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island lies off...

. The coast in this vicinity was first seen from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth

Lincoln Ellsworth

Lincoln Ellsworth was an arctic explorer from the United States.-Birth:He was born on May 12, 1880 to James Ellsworth and Eva Frances Butler in Chicago, Illinois...

 on November 23, 1935, and roughly mapped from photos obtained on that flight by W.L.G. Joerg. The point was roughly surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition

British Graham Land Expedition

A British expedition to Graham Land led by John Lachlan Cope took place between 1920 and 1922. The British Graham Land Expedition was a geophysical and exploration expedition to Graham Land in Antarctica between 1934 to 1937. Under the leadership of John Riddoch Rymill, the expedition spent two...

 (BGLE) and more accurately defined in 1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for its association with Neptune Glacier

Neptune Glacier

Neptune Glacier is a glacier on the east coast of Alexander Island, 12 nautical miles long and 4 nautical miles wide, flowing east into George VI Sound to the south of Triton Point. First seen from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth on November 23, 1935, and roughly mapped from photos obtained on that...

, Triton being a satellite of Neptune.