Holst Point () is a point at the head of
Beascochea Bay
Beascochea Bay () is a bay, long and wide, indenting the Graham Coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, between Kyiv Peninsula and Barison Peninsula, and entered south of Cape Perez. The glaciers Lever, Funk, Cadman, Talev and Butamya feed the bay.
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which divides it into two arms, on the west coast of
Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and ...
, Antarctica. It was first charted by the
British Graham Land Expedition under
John Rymill
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* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
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, 1934–37, and was named by the
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...
in 1959 for
Axel Holst
Axel Holst (6 September 1860 – 26 April 1931) was a Norwegian Professor of Hygiene and Bacteriology at the University of Oslo.
He was most known for his contributions to the study of the treatment of Beriberi and Scurvy.
Biography
Holst was bor ...
, a Norwegian biochemist who in 1907, with
Theodor C.B. Frølich, first produced experimental scurvy and laid the foundations for later work on vitamins.
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References
Headlands of Graham Land
Graham Coast
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