Tryne Point

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Tryne Point ( 67°18′S59°3′E / 67.300°S 59.050°E / -67.300; 59.050 Coordinates: 67°18′S59°3′E / 67.300°S 59.050°E / -67.300; 59.050 ) is a rocky point at the east extremity of Law Promontory in Antartica, forming the west side of the entrance of Stefansson Bay. Charted by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Norwegian expedition under Christensen in January–February 1937, and named Trynet, a Norwegian word meaning "the snout." The form Tryne, dropping the definite article, is approved with the added generic term point.

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Law Promontory in Antarctica was named after Phillip Law, who flew over and photographed this feature in February 1954.

Stefansson Bay is a bay indenting the coast for 16 kilometres (10 mi) between Law Promontory and Fold Island. Mawson of the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) applied the name to a sweep of the coast west of Cape Wilkins which he observed on about February 18, 1931. Exploration by DI personnel on the William Scoresby, 1936, and the Lars Christensen expedition 1936-37, defined this section of the coast more accurately. It was named for Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer.

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