Moody Point

Moody Point is the eastern headland of Joinville Island, an island off the Trinity Peninsula at Graham Land's north-eastern tip, within the British Antarctic Territory.

The headland was charted by James Ross on 30 December 1842, and named after Richard Clement Moody (1813-87), first Governor of the Falkland Islands, 1841-49.

The point was surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Hope Bay in December 1953 and photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in1956-57.

Location

• Location map: 63°18’45"S, 55°2’51"W

References

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