COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

off Clothier Harbour, Robert Island, was described as an island by the nineteenth-century sealers (Fildes, 1821c); included by Powell in the group called Heywood's Isles (Heywood Island, q.v.); seen from a distance by DI in 1935, charted as the NW point of Robert Island, and named Cornwall Point, after Cornwall House, London SE1, where the Admiralty Hydrographic Office was formerly situated (Nelson and others, chart, 1935b; BA, 1942, p.42; chart 1774, 9.vii.1948; APC, 1955, p.7). Punta Cornwall (Argentina. MM chart ZZ, 1948; Pierrou, 1970, p.268). Punta Conrwall [sic] (Argentina. MM chart ALFA, 1954). Air photography by FIDASE in 1956 confirmed that the feature is an island. Isla Hummock (Heywood Island, q.v.) (Chile. DNH chart 1405, 1961). Cornwall Island (APC, 1962, p.9; DOS 610 sheet W 62 58, 1968).

Island nearly 0.5 mi long, lying midway between Heywood Island and the W extremity of Robert Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The feature was first described as an island in the approaches to Clothier Harbor, but was not named, by Robert Fildes in 1820-22. It was seen from a distance and named Cornwall Point by DI personnel in 1934-35. Air photos now confirm that the feature is an island.