Boy Point () is a headland between
Cinder Spur and
Low Head
Low Head is a rural residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of George Town Council, George Town in the Launceston LGA Region, Launceston LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about north of the town of George Town, Tasmania, G ...
on the south coast of
King George Island in the
South Shetland Islands
The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...
. It was named by the
Polish Antarctic Expedition in 1980 after
Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874–1941), Polish writer and essayist.
See also
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Wesele Cove Wesele Cove () is a cove between Boy Point and Low Head on the south coast of King George Island, South Shetland Islands. Named in 1980 by the Polish Antarctic Expedition after Wesele ( The Wedding), a play by Polish dramatist Stanislaw Wyspianski ...
References
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Poland and the Antarctic
Headlands of King George Island (South Shetland Islands)
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