Catharina Point

Catharina Point is the northernmost point of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, within the British Antarctic Territory.

The point was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in December 1956. It is named in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area; after the American sealing ship Catharina (under Captain J. Henfield, from whom Henfield Rock is named) from Stonington, Connecticut, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820-21, operating from nearby Clothier Harbour.

Location

• Location map: 62°19’42"S, 59°37’14"W

References

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