Thorne Point

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Thorne Point ( 66°57′S67°12′W / 66.950°S 67.200°W / -66.950; -67.200 Coordinates: 66°57′S67°12′W / 66.950°S 67.200°W / -66.950; -67.200 ) is a point at the west side of Langmuir Cove, marking the northwest extremity of Arrowsmith Peninsula, Graham Land. It was mapped in 1960 from surveys made by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), and was named for John Thorne, FIDS meteorologist at Detaille Island in 1956 and 1957.

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Langmuir Cove is a cove in the north end of Arrowsmith Peninsula, Graham Land, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Irving Langmuir, an American physicist who studied the formation of snow.

Arrowsmith Peninsula

Arrowsmith Peninsula is a cape about 40 miles (64 km) long on the west coast of Graham Land, west of Forel Glacier, Sharp Glacier and Lallemand Fjord, and northwest of Bourgeois Fjord, with Hanusse Bay lying to the northwest. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955-58 and named for Edwin P. Arrowsmith, Governor of the Falkland Islands.

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