Drying Point
Drying Point is a cape in Antarctica.Places of Interest
Highlights include Signy Research Station and Heywood Lake.
Signy Research Station
Dwelling
Photo: NOAA Photo Library, CC BY 2.0.
Signy Research Station is an Antarctic research base on Signy Island, run by the British Antarctic Survey.
Heywood Lake
Lake
Three Lakes Valley is a low valley containing three freshwater lakes, extending from the vicinity of Elephant Flats northward to Stygian Cove on Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands.
Moss Lake
Lake
Paternoster Valley is a valley extending southwestward from Stygian Cove in northern Signy Island. So named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee from the occurrence of three small paternoster lakes, at different levels in the valley.
Drying Point
- Type: Cape
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-60.705° or 60° 42′ 18″ southLongitude
-45.603° or 45° 36′ 11″ westElevation
5 metres (16 feet)Open location code
38FP79WW+2QGeoNames ID
6632391
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In Other Languages
“Drying Point” goes by many names.
- Spanish: “Drying, punta”
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