Vorweg Point
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Vorweg Point () is a point northwest of Huitfeldt Point on the southwest side of
Barilari Bay Barilari Bay () is a bay long and wide, between Cape Garcia and Loqui Point on the west coast of Graham Land. The glaciers Birley, Lawrie, Weir and Bilgeri feed the bay. It was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, and ...
, 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 an ...
. Charted by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under Rymill, 1934–37. 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) an ...
(UK-APC) in 1959 for O. Vorweg, German pioneer exponent of skiing and author of Das Schneeschuh Laufen (1893), probably the earliest manual on skiing. Headlands of Graham Land Graham Coast {{GrahamCoast-geo-stub