Vesconte Point is a steep rock point on the south side of Bermel Peninsula

Bermel Peninsula

The Bermel Peninsula is a rugged, mountainous peninsula, approximately 15 mi long and 7 mi wide, located at between Solberg Inlet and Mobiloil Inlet on the Bowman Coast, Graham Land, Antarctica...

, Bowman Coast

Bowman Coast

The Bowman Coast is the portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Northrop and Cape Agassiz. It was discovered by Sir Hubert Wilkins in an aerial flight of December 20, 1928. It was named by Wilkins for Isaiah Bowman, then Director of the American Geographical Society....

, marking the extremity of a spur running southeast from the easternmost of the Bowditch Crests

Bowditch Crests

Bowditch Crests is a line of precipitous cliffs surmounted by four summits on Bermel Peninsula in eastern Graham Land. The feature was photographed from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth in November 1935 and was mapped from these photos by W.L.G. Joerg...

. The point was first roughly mapped by W.L.G. Joerg from air photos taken 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 was later surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in December 1958. In association with the names of pioneers of navigation grouped in this area, it was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Petrus Vesconte of Genoa, the earliest known chartmaker whose charts survive (the first dated 1311).