Cardno Point () is a high flat-topped, tussock-covered headland forming the eastern extremity of
Bird Island, off the west end of
South Georgia
South Georgia ( es, Isla San Pedro) is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around east of the Falkland Islands. Stretching in the east†...
. It was named by the
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Lieutenant Commander
Peter G.N. Cardno,
Royal Navy, navigating officer of
HMS ''Owen'', which made a hydrographic survey of the area in 1960–61.
References
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Headlands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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