Bruce Point
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Bruce Point is a headland situated at the south side of Charcot Cove
on the coast of Victoria Land
. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Captain Robert F. Scott, who named the feature for William S. Bruce, leader of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition
(1902–04).
Charcot Cove
Charcot Cove is a re-entrant in the coast of Victoria Land between Bruce Point and Cape Hickey. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, which named this feature for Dr. Jean-Baptiste Charcot, noted Arctic and Antarctic explorer....
on the coast of Victoria Land
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...
. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Captain Robert F. Scott, who named the feature for William S. Bruce, leader of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition
The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition , 1902–04, was organised and led by William Speirs Bruce, a natural scientist and former medical student from the University of Edinburgh. Although overshadowed in prestige terms by Robert Falcon Scott's concurrent Discovery Expedition, the SNAE completed...
(1902–04).