Taylor Point

Taylor Point is a headland forming the north limit of Destruction Bay, on the east coast of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands, within the British Antarctic Territory.

The point was roughly charted by Discovery Investigations in 1937 and photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956.

The point was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area; in this case after Captain Daniel Taylor, Master of the Hobart sealing vessel Caroline, which visited the South Shetland Islands in the 1821 to 1822 season.

Location

• Location map: 61°55’59"S, 57°38’30"W