Porteous Point
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Porteous Point is a point at the southwest end of Signy Island
forming the south entrance point of Cummings Cove
and northeast entrance point of Fyr Channel
, in the South Orkney Islands
. Charted in 1933 by DI
personnel on the engineer of the ship.
Signy Island
Signy Island is a small sub-antarctic island in the South Orkney Islands group locted at . It is about long and wide and rises to above sea level. Much of the island is permanently covered with ice. The average temperature range is to about in winter...
forming the south entrance point of Cummings Cove
Cummings Cove
Cummings Cove is a cove between Jebsen Point and Porteous Point on the west side of Signy Island in the South Orkney Islands. Roughly surveyed by DI personnel in 1933, and resurveyed in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee ...
and northeast entrance point of Fyr Channel
Fyr Channel
Fyr Channel is a channel 0.2 nautical miles wide between the southwest end of Signy Island and Moe Island, in the South Orkney Islands. The name Fyr Strait appears on a manuscript chart drawn by Captain Petter Sorlle in 1912, and corrected by Hans Borge in 1913, but the generic term channel is...
, in the South Orkney Islands
South Orkney Islands
The South Orkney Islands are a group of islands in the Southern Ocean, about north-east of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. They have a total area of about ....
. Charted in 1933 by DI
Discovery Investigations
The Discovery Investigations were a series of scientific cruises and shore-based investigations into the biology of whales in the Southern Ocean. They were funded by the British Colonial Office and organised by the Discovery Committee in London, which was formed in 1918...
personnel on the engineer of the ship.