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Tryne Point () is a rocky point at the east extremity of
Law Promontory Law Promontory in Antarctica was named after Phillip Law, who flew over and photographed this feature in February 1954. The promontory is about long, situated just west and north-west of Stefansson Bay. This feature appears to have been first map ...
in Antarctica, forming the west side of the entrance of
Stefansson Bay Stefansson Bay is a bay indenting the coast for between Law Promontory and Fold Island. Mawson of the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) applied the name to a sweep of the coast west of Cape Wilkins which he obs ...
. Charted by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Norwegian expedition under Christensen in January–February 1937, and named Trynet, a Norwegian word meaning "the snout." The form Tryne, dropping the definite article, is approved with the added generic term point.


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Blackrock Head Blackrock Head () is a conspicuous coastal rock outcrop on the eastern part of Law Promontory, northwest of Tryne Point in Antarctica. It was discovered in February 1936 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the ''William Scoresby Willia ...
Headlands of Kemp Land {{KempLand-geo-stub