Alfred Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Alfred Point (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Point
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer.
A point of sand and shingle that formed following the erosion of Elephant Spit, eastern Heard Island.
On 29 December 1854 during a sealing voyage from the United States, the whaling schooner, Alfred, was wrecked at Elephant Spit during a severe storm. The first of fourteen known shipwrecks at Heard Island, all on the Alfred survived and were eventually rescued.
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