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Finger Point (other)
Finger Point may refer to: Places in Antarctica * Finger Point (South Sandwich Islands) Visokoi Island is an uninhabited island in the Traversay Islands group of the South Sandwich Islands. It was discovered in 1819 by a Russian expedition under Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, who initially named the island Thorson Island in h ... * Finger Point (Wilhelm Archipelago) * Finger Point (Victoria Land) Other * '' The Finger Points'', a 1931 American film starring Richard Barthelmess and Fay Wray See also * Fingerpointing (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finger Point (South Sandwich Islands)
Visokoi Island is an uninhabited island in the Traversay Islands group of the South Sandwich Islands. It was discovered in 1819 by a Russian expedition under Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, who initially named the island Thorson Island in honor of Lieutenant , though the tsarist government later renamed the island Visokoi ("high"), after its conspicuous height, in response to Thorson's participation in the Decembrist revolt. The island was surveyed in 1930 by Discovery Investigations (DI) personnel, who charted and named many of its features. Several of the names given by DI were changed in 1953 by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) to avoid redundancy with nearby features. Geography The island is long and wide, capped by Mount Hodson, a volcanic peak (). The peak is named after Sir Arnold Weinholt Hodson, a governor of the Falkland Islands. The island has a strong smell of sulphurous fumes. The island is surrounded by an underwater Continental s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finger Point (Wilhelm Archipelago)
Skua Island () is a roughly triangular island long, lying between Black Island to the southwest and Winter Island and Galindez Island to the north and northeast, in the Argentine Islands, Wilhelm Archipelago. Location The Argentine Islands are off the Graham Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. They are south of the French Passage, west of Mount Shackleton on the mainland, north of the Berthelot Islands and Grandidier Channel and east of the Betbeder Islands The Betbeder Islands are a group of small islands and rocks in the southwest part of the Wilhelm Archipelago, west of Cape Tuxen. They were discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, and named by Jean-Baptiste Charcot for Rear Ad .... Sailing directions The US Defense Mapping Agency's ''Sailing Directions for Antarctica'' (1976) describes Skua Island and its surroundings as follows: Exploration and name Skua Island was charted and named in 1935 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finger Point (Victoria Land)
Granite Harbour () is a bay in the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, about long, entered between Cape Archer and Cape Roberts. It was discovered and named by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) in the ''Discovery Discovery may refer to: * Discovery (observation), observing or finding something unknown * Discovery (fiction), a character's learning something unknown * Discovery (law), a process in courts of law relating to evidence Discovery, The Discovery ...'' in January 1902, while searching for safe winter quarters for the ship. The name derives from the great granite boulders found on its shores. See also * First View Point * Stevens Cliff References Bays of the Ross Dependency Landforms of Victoria Land Scott Coast Ports and harbours of the Ross Dependency {{ScottCoast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Finger Points
''The Finger Points'' is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by John Francis Dillon and written by John Monk Saunders, W.R. Burnett and Robert Lord. The film stars Richard Barthelmess, Fay Wray, Regis Toomey, Robert Elliott, Clark Gable, Oscar Apfel and Robert Gleckler. The film was released by Warner Bros. on April 11, 1931. Clark Gable was chosen to be Louis J. Blanco, the chief enforcer of the mob. Contracted with MGM, Gable filmed scenes for ''The Finger Points'', '' Night Nurse'', and ''The Easiest Way'' simultaneously. Plot Breckenridge "Breck" Lee (Richard Barthelmess) is a young, naïve kid from the South who comes to New York to get a job as a newspaperman. After getting hired by The Press, his first assignment is to expose the existence of a newly opened gambling parlor. Gangster Louis J. Blanco (Clark Gable) attempts to bribe Lee to keep quiet. Lee refuses to accept the bribe, and publishes an article about the casino which subsequently gets raided by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
