Chinstrap Point
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Chinstrap Point is the southeast point of Vindication Island,
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. This feature was named Rocky Point during a survey of the island from RRS ''Discovery II'' in 1930, but the name was changed to avoid duplication. The new name applied by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971 refers to the enormous colony of chinstrap penguins on the point.


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* Headlands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands {{SouthGeorgia-geo-stub