Ablation Point

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Ablation Point is the eastern extremity of a hook-shaped rock ridge rising to 1,800 feet and forming the north side of the entrance to Ablation Valley, on the east coast of Alexander Island, in the British Antarctic Territory.

The point was first photographed from the air on 23 November 1935 by Lincoln Ellsworth and mapped from these photographs by W.L.G. Joerg.

The point was roughly surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition and resurveyed in 1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey. It was used as a site for the Survey's depots in 1948-49.

The point was named by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey for nearby Ablation Valley.

The site lies within an Antarctic Specially Protected Area ('Ablation Point – Ganymede Heights').[1]

Location

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References

  1. "Ablation Valley and Ganymede Heights, Alexander Island". Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 147: Measure 1. Antarctic Treaty Secretariat. 2002. http://www.ats.aq/documents/recatt/Att188_e.pdf. Retrieved 2013-09-11.