Gaudin Point (65°5′S 63°22′W / 65.083°S 63.367°W / -65.083; -63.367) is the eastern entrance point of Lauzanne Cove, Flandres Bay, on the Danco Coast of Antarctica. It was first charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot. In association with the names of pioneers of photography in this area, the point was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (1977) after Marc Antoine Gaudin, a French photographer who took the first instantaneous photographs of moving objects in 1841.[1]

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  1. "Gaudin Point". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-04-18.

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