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Access Point (Antarctica)
Access Point
is a rocky point immediately southeast of
Biscoe Point
and northwest of
Cape Lancaster
on the south side of
Anvers Island
, in the
Palmer Archipelago
. First charted by the
French Antarctic Expedition
under
Jean-Baptiste Charcot
, 1903–05. Surveyed in 1955 by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
(FIDS) and so named because there is a landing place for boats on the northwest tip of the point which provides access to the inland parts of the
island
.
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