Almond Point
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Almond Point is a rocky point between Whitecloud Glacier
and McNeile Glacier
at the head of Charcot Bay
, Trinity Peninsula
, Antarctica. Charted in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey who applied the name because of the distinctive shape of the point.
Whitecloud Glacier
Whitecloud Glacier is a glacier which flows northward to discharge into Charcot Bay just west of Almond Point, Trinity Peninsula. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960. The name is descriptive of cloud conditions that prevailed at the time of Falkland Islands...
and McNeile Glacier
McNeile Glacier
McNeile Glacier is a glacier flowing northward to the southeast side of Almond Point where it enters Charcot Bay, on the west side of Graham Land. Charted in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and named for S.St.C. McNeile, surveyor at the FIDS Hope Bay base in 1948-49....
at the head of Charcot Bay
Charcot Bay
Charcot Bay is a bay about wide between Cape Kater and Cape Kjellman along the west coast of Graham Land. It was discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Otto Nordenskiöld. He named it for Dr...
, 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...
, Antarctica. Charted in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey who applied the name because of the distinctive shape of the point.