Mansfield Point

Mansfield Point is found between Cleft Point and Stene Point on Norway Bight, indenting the south coast of Coronation Island amongst the South Orkney Islands in the British Antarctic Territory.

The point was surveyed by Discovery Investigations in 1933 and resurveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Signy in 1948-49. It is named after Dr Arthur Walter Mansfield (b.1926), the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey meteorological observer at Grytviken in 1951-52; Base Leader, biologist and meteorological observer at Signy in 1952-53; specialist on Arctic sea mammals, Fisheries Research Board, Canada, from c. 1958.

Location

• Location map: 60°39’-0"S, 45°43’59"W

References

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