Nebles Point
Nebles Point is a point forming the west side of the entrance to Collins Harbor in the southwest part of King George Island, South Shetland Islands. On his chart of 1825, James Weddell, Master, Royal Navy, applied the name Nebles Harbour to Collins Harbor, or possibly to an anchorage close north of Ardley Island; the detail of this part of his map cannot be interpreted with certainty.Places of Interest
Highlights include Profound Lake and Buddington Peak.
Profound Lake
Lake
Profound Lake or Lake Profound is a lake 400 metres northwest of Jasper Point in northeast Fildes Peninsula, King George Island. The feature was named "Ozero Glubokoye" by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition working from Bellingshausen Station from 1968, but both forms of the name were already in use in Antarctica. Profound Lake is situated 3 km west of Nebles Point.
Buddington Peak
Peak
Buddington Peak is a peak rising between Collins Harbor and Marian Cove in the southwest part of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for James W. Buddington Peak is situated 3½ km east of Nebles Point.
Fildes Peninsula
Protected area
Photo: Arcibel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Fildes Peninsula is a 7 km long peninsula that forms the south-western end of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It was named from association with nearby Fildes Strait by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960; the strait was likely named for Robert Fildes, a British sealer of the 1800s. Fildes Peninsula is situated 3½ km northwest of Nebles Point.
Nebles Point
- Type: Cape
- Description: location in King George Island
- Categories: peninsula and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Swedish—“Nebles Point” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Nebles Point”
- Cebuano: “Nebles Point”
- Chinese: “內布爾斯角”
- Dutch: “Nebles Point”
- French: “Nebles Point”
- German: “Bernhardinerspitze”
- German: “Hundespitze”
- German: “Nebles Point”
- German: “Punta Perro Bernhardinerspitze”
- German: “Punta San Bernardo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nebles Point”
- Spanish: “Nebles, punta”
- Swedish: “Nebles Point”
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