Taylor Point () is a point forming the north limit of
Destruction Bay, on the east 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 ...
. Named by the
United Kingdom 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 ...
(UK-APC) in 1960 for
D. Taylor, Master of the Hobart sealing vessel Caroline, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1821–22.
Headlands of King George Island (South Shetland Islands)
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