Boney Point

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Boney Point ( 76°39′S162°43′E / 76.650°S 162.717°E / -76.650; 162.717 Coordinates: 76°39′S162°43′E / 76.650°S 162.717°E / -76.650; 162.717 ) is a rock headland along the south side of the entrance to Tripp Bay in Victoria Land. It was named in association with nearby Brough Nunatak after Lieutenant Commander B.E. Boney, U.S. Navy, captain of USS Brough in Antarctic waters in Operation Deep Freeze IV, 1958–59.

Geographic coordinate system Coordinate system

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Tripp Bay is a bay along the coast of Victoria Land formed by a recession in the ice between the Oates Piedmont Glacier and Evans Piedmont Glacier. The bay was first charted by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-09. The name appears to have been first used by the British Antarctic Expedition (1910–13) and derives from Tripp Island which lies within the bay.

Victoria Land region of Antarctica

Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria. The rocky promontory of Minna Bluff is often regarded as the southernmost point of Victoria Land, and separates the Scott Coast to the north from the Hillary Coast of the Ross Dependency to the south.

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