Rootes Point

Rootes Point is a cape in .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Heywood Lake and Sombre Lake.

Lake
Three Lakes Valley is a low valley containing three freshwater lakes, extending from the vicinity of Elephant Flats northward to on , in the .

Lake
Paternoster Valley is a valley extending southwestward from in northern . So named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee from the occurrence of three small paternoster lakes, at different levels in the valley.

Peak
is a sharply defined rocky summit which is the northernmost peak on in the . It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1954 for Gordon de Quetteville Robin of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, the leader at Signy Island base in 1947, who made the first detailed survey of the island.

Rootes Point

Latitude
-60.688° or 60° 41′ 17″ south
Longitude
-45.596° or 45° 35′ 46″ west
Open location code
38FP8C63+QH
Geo­Names ID
6624365
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Satellite Map

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