Suffield Point is the south-west entrance point of

Norma Cove Norma Cove () is a cove between Suffield Point and Jasper Point, Maxwell Bay, King George Island. The feature was named " Bukhta Norma" or " Norma Inlet" by L.S. Govorukha and I.M. Simonov, 1973, following Soviet Antarctic Expedition surveys f ...

Fildes Peninsula The Fildes Peninsula is a long peninsula that forms the south-western end of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It was named from association with nearby Fildes Strait by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in ...

, on 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 ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest co ...

. It was charted in the course of the

Discovery Investigations The Discovery Investigations were a series of scientific cruises and shore-based investigations into the biology of whales in the Southern Ocean. They were funded by the British Colonial Office and organised by the Discovery Committee in London ...

, 1933–35, and named after boatswain William E. Suffield. The site is part of the Fildes Peninsula

Antarctic Specially Protected Area An Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) is an area on the continent of Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Sou ...

(ASPA 125), designated as such because of its

paleontological Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

values.

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Headlands of King George Island (South Shetland Islands) Antarctic Specially Protected Areas Lighthouses in Antarctica {{KingGeorgeIslandAQ-geo-stub

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