Sheppard Point

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Sheppard Point (63°22′S, 56°58′W) is a point marking the north side of the entrance to Hope Bay, at the northeast end of Antarctic Peninsula. Discovered by a party under J. Gunnar Andersson of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04, who wintered at Hope Bay in 1903. Named by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) for R. Sheppard, Master of the established a FIDS scientific station at Hope Bay.

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