![]() 3.2 nmi (5.9 km 3.7 mi) northeast of that is a headland called Tyree Head, named for U.S. Approximately 5.4 nmi (10.0 km 6.2 mi) north of that is a rock spur called Sultans Head Rock, named by DE personnel. Farther north is Ackley Point, named by US-ACAN for sea ice specialist Stephen F. The name, given by US-ACAN, is allusive when viewed from the west, the appearance of the point is suggestive of the head, neck and fore part of a polar bear. North of Pram Point is ice-covered Polar Bear Point. New Zealand Antarctic Scott Base is on Pram Point. It was discovered by DE personnel, and named because they kept a Norwegian 'pram' ( dinghy) there to get to the Ross Ice Shelf during the summer months. On the east coast, Pram Point sits about 1.5 nmi (2.8 km 1.7 mi) northeast of Cape Armitage. The southernmost point of the peninsula is Cape Armitage, named by Scott's expedition for Lieutenant (later Captain) Albert Armitage, second in command and navigator on the Discovery. Vince of the expedition lost his life here in a blizzard when he slipped and fell into the sea. It was named by DE personnel because Seaman George T. Just south is Danger Slopes, a steep ice slope terminating west in a sheer drop to Erebus Bay. This name was adopted by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) as it was already in use by fieldworkers in the area. 2.5 nmi (4.6 km 2.9 mi) south is Knob Point, a rounded coastal point. To the south is Rodgers Point, named in 2000 by the New Zealand Geographic Board after Thelma Rodgers, the first woman to winter at Scott Base. South of that are the Hutton Cliffs, named by the Discovery Expedition (DE) of 1901–04 for Captain Hutton of the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand. On the west coast, south of the Erebus Ice Tongue, is Descent Cliff, charted and named by BAE members because they descended to the sea ice from it. ![]() Geography Ī number of features on Hut Point Peninsula have been charted and named by various Antarctic expeditions. The point is protected as Antarctic Specially Protected Area No.158 largely because of its historic significance as one of the principal sites of early human activity in Antarctica. Both the cross (HSM 19) and the hut (HSM 18) have been designated Historic Sites or Monuments, following proposals by New Zealand and the United Kingdom to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting. Several features on Hut Point, including the cross memorial for George Vince and the store hut for the Scott expeditions, are protected under the Antarctic Treaty. Members of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13 (BAE), under Scott, wintering on Cape Evans and often using the hut during their journeys, came to refer to the whole peninsula as the Hut Point Peninsula. ![]() The British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) under Robert Falcon Scott built its hut on Hut Point, a small point lying 1.5 km (1 mi) north-east of Cape Armitage, the southern headland of the peninsula. ![]()
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