Lenton Point

South Orkney Islands.

Lenton Point (60°44′S 45°37′W / 60.733°S 45.617°W / -60.733; -45.617Coordinates: 60°44′S 45°37′W / 60.733°S 45.617°W / -60.733; -45.617) is the southwestern extremity of a small, rocky peninsula in Clowes Bay on the south side of Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands off Antarctica. It was roughly surveyed in 1933 by Discovery Investigations personnel, and resurveyed in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). It was named in 1954 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Ralph A. Lenton of the FIDS, a radio operator at Signy Island base in 1948, who helped with the survey and biological work. Lenton subsequently worked at Admiralty Bay in 1949, and was leader at Deception Island in 1951, at Port Lockroy in 1952 and at the Argentine Islands in 1954.^[1]

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 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Lenton Point" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).