Shoemaker Point () is a point 0.5 miles (0.8 km) east of
Jordan Cove
Jordan Cove () is a small cove which is the principal indentation in the south side of Bird Island, off the west end of South Georgia, near Antarctica.
It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period of 1951–57. The UK Antarctic Pl ...
on the south side of
Bird Island,
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†...
, just south of
Sooty Cove
Sooty Cove () is a small cove just north of Shoemaker Point along the south side of Bird Island, South Georgia, Bird Island, South Georgia Island, South Georgia. The name, applied by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC), derive ...
. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951-57 and named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1963. "Shoemaker" is an old sailors' name for the Cape hen (Procellaria aequinoctialis), a bird which breeds on Bird Island.
Headlands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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