COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

N entrance point of Exasperation Inlet, Oscar II Coast. Following his flight on 20 December 1928, Wilkins reported an island in c. 66°30'S 62°30'W to which he applied the name Foyn Island, in association with Foyn Coast (q.v.), which he showed lying further W than charted by NWE, 1893-94 (Wilkins, 1929, map facing p.374; BA chart 3175, 1.iii.1940; 1948, p.12). Wordie (1929, second map facing p.304) used the name New Island presumably for the same feature but shown in c. 67°05'S 62°00'W. Isla Foyn (Argentina. IGM map, 1946). Following survey of the area by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in December 1947 and comparison of a photograph by Wilkins (1929, Fig. 26, p.365) with FIDS photographs, the present feature was identified as the SE extremity of the feature originally named by Wilkins, but lying c. 165km NNE of the position reported by him. Foyn Point (BA chart 3570, 27.vi.1952; APC, 1955, p.10; BA chart 3570, 29.ix.1961). Punta Foyn (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.325; Pierrou, 1970, p.373; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.128). Further survey by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in 1955 showed that the feature is the SE point of a promontory and not of an island. Mys Foyn (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).

Point, surmounted by a peak 525 m high, marking the N side of the entrance to Exasperation Inlet, on the E coast of Graham Land. Sir Hubert Wilkins on a flight of Dec. 20, 1928 photographed what appeared to be an island off the E coast, later charting it in 6630S, 6230W. Subsequent comparison of Wilkins' photographs of this feature with those taken by the FIDS, who charted the coast in 1947, indicate that this point, although considerably N of the position reported by Wilkins, is the feature named by him Foyn Island. The name Foyn Point is given to the SE extremity of this feature. Named for Svend Foyn.

Sir Hubert Wilkins en un vuelo efectuado el 10 de diciembre de 1928 la fotografió como una isla que estaba retirada de la costa E de Tierra de O'Higgins, ubicándola en Lat. 66° 30' S- Long. 62° 30' W. Subsiguiente comparación con las fotografías de Wilkins con aquellas tomadas por el FIDS, que cartografió la costa en 1947, indican que esa punta aunque considerablemente más al N de la posición informada por Wilkins como isla, era la que se denominaba isla Foyn. El nombre punta Foyn se le dio a la extremidad S de este accidente.