Fitzroy Point

Fitzroy Point is a low headland at the east side of Fliess Bay forming the northeast extremity of Joinville Island, off the north-western tip of Graham Land in the British Antarctic Territory.

The point was discovered on 30 December 1842 by a British expedition under James Clark Ross, who named it "Cape Fitzroy" for Captain (later Vice Admiral) Robert FitzRoy of the Royal Navy, a hydrographer and the founder of the science of meteorology.

The headland was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Hope Bay in December 1953.

Location

• Location map: 63°11’8"S, 55°9’22"W

References

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