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Race Point is the point on the north side of Smylie Channel forming the south extremity of Weddell Island in the
Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubouze ...
.Race Point.
Falkland Islands. GeoNames Geographical Database The point is located at , which is 26.7 km south-southwest of Swan Point, 3.5 km west-northwest of neighbouring Dyke Island, 1.8 km north of West Island and 4 km north-northeast of Orford Hill, West Falkland.


Maps

* ''The Falkland Islands''. Scale 1:401280 map. London: Edward Stanford, 1901 * Falkland Islands Explorer Map. Scale 1:365000. Ocean Explorer Maps, 2007 * Falklands Topographic Map Series. Scale 1:50000, 29 sheets. DOS 453, 1961-1979
Falkland Islands.
Scale 1:643000 Map. DOS 906. Edition 3-OS, 1998
''Map 500k--xm20-4''.
1:500000 map of Weddell Island and part of West Falkland. Russian Army Maps (for the world)

Scale 1:1500000 chart. Gps Nautical Charts, 2010
Illustrated Map of Weddell Island


Notes


References

* B. Stonehouse (ed.). ''Encyclopedia of Antarctica and the Southern Oceans''. Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. 404 pp. * C.H. Barnard
''A Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of Capt. Charles H. Barnard, in a Recent Voyage Round the World, Including an Account of His Residence for Two Years on An Uninhabited Island''.
New York: J.P. Callender, 1836 * P.P. King and R. Fitzroy
''The South America Pilot''.
''Part II. From the Rio de la Plata to the Bay of Panama, including Magellan Strait, the Falkland, and Galapagos Islands''. Fifth Edition. London: Printed for the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, 1860. pp. 116–118


External links


Weddell Island Official Website

Weddell Island from space.
NASA Johnson Space Center, 30 April 2005 Headlands of the Falkland Islands {{Weddell-Island-geo-stub