Shoemaker Point
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Shoemaker Point () is a point 0.5 miles (0.8 km) east of Jordan Cove on the south side of Bird Island, South Georgia. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951-57 and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1963. "Shoemaker" is an old sailors' name for the Cape hen (Procellaria aequinoctialis), a bird which breeds on Bird Island.
This article incorporates text from Shoemaker Point, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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