Weddell Point, Weddell Island

Location of Weddell Island in the Falkland Islands

Satellite image of Weddell Island

Weddell Point is the point on the east side of Tea Island Passage forming the south side of the entrance to Skull Bay on the west coast of Weddell Island in the Falkland Islands.^[1] The point is located at 51°54′10″S 61°08′03″W / 51.90278°S 61.13417°W / -51.90278; -61.13417, which is 13.2 km northwest of Race Point, 1.1 km southeast of Tea Island and 1.5 km south of Skull Bay Island.

Maps

The Falkland Islands. Scale 1:401280 map. London: Edward Stanford, 1901
Falkland Islands Explorer Map. Scale 1:365000. Ocean Explorer Maps, 2007
Falklands Topographic Map Series. Scale 1:50000, 29 sheets. DOS 453, 1961-1979
Falkland Islands. Scale 1:643000 Map. DOS 906. Edition 3-OS, 1998
Map 500k--xm20-4. 1:500000 map of Weddell Island and part of West Falkland. Russian Army Maps (for the world)
Approaches to the Falkland Islands. Scale 1:1500000 chart. Gps Nautical Charts, 2010
Illustrated Map of Weddell Island

B. Stonehouse (ed.). Encyclopedia of Antarctica and the Southern Oceans. Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. 404 pp. ISBN 978-0-471-98665-2
C.H. Barnard. A Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of Capt. Charles H. Barnard, in a Recent Voyage Round the World, Including an Account of His Residence for Two Years on An Uninhabited Island. New York: J.P. Callender, 1836
P.P. King and R. Fitzroy. The South America Pilot. Part II. From the Rio de la Plata to the Bay of Panama, including Magellan Strait, the Falkland, and Galapagos Islands. Fifth Edition. London: Printed for the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, 1860. pp. 116–118

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