Belemnite Point
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Belemnite Point is the eastern extremity of a mainly ice-free, hook-shaped ridge, midway between Lamina Peak
and Ablation Point
and 2 miles (3 km) inland from George VI Sound
on the east coast of Alexander Island
, Antarctica. It was first photographed from the air on November 23, 1935, by Lincoln Ellsworth
and mapped from these photos by W.L.G. Joerg. Roughly surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition
and resurveyed in 1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), it was so named by FIDS because of belemnite fossils found there.
Lamina Peak
Lamina Peak is a prominent pyramid-shaped peak, 1,280 m, surmounting a stratified ridge which curves down from Mount Edred northeastward toward George VI Sound. The peak stands 4.5 nautical miles inland from the east coast of Alexander Island at the south limit of the Douglas Range...
and Ablation Point
Ablation Point
Ablation Point , also known as Punta Ablación, is the east extremity of a hook-shaped rock ridge marking the north side of the entrance to Ablation Valley on the east coast of Alexander Island. First photographed from the air on November 23, 1935, by Lincoln Ellsworth and mapped from these photos...
and 2 miles (3 km) inland from George VI Sound
George VI Sound
George VI Sound or Canal Jorge VI or Canal Presidente Sarmiento or Canal Seaver or King George VI Sound or King George the Sixth Sound is a major bay/fault depression, 300 miles long in the shape of the letter J, which skirts the east and south shores of Alexander Island, separating it from the...
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...
, Antarctica. It was first photographed from the air on November 23, 1935, 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...
and mapped from these photos by W.L.G. Joerg. 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...
and resurveyed in 1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), it was so named by FIDS because of belemnite fossils found there.