Siddins Point

Siddins Point is a headland projecting into the middle of the head of Hero Bay on the north coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, in the British Antarctic Territory.

The headland was charted by Discovery Investigations in 1933-34. It was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1957-59

Siddins Point was named in 1958 in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers; in this case for Captain Richard Siddins, Master of the Australian sealer Lynx of Sydney, who visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820-21 and 1821–22. Until 2011 the name was spelled as 'Siddons Point', but later conformed to the spelling of the Captain's name.

Location

• Location map: 62°32’42"S, 60°26’5"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Siddins Point