Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

North Foreland

(Venus Bay)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 61° 53' 37" S 57° 41' 12" W
NE point of King George Island and E entrance point of Emerald Cove, was roughly charted, 16 October 1819, by William Smith (Smith Island, q.v.) who made the first recorded landing in Antarctica in this vicinity, from the brig Williams, and took formal possession of the island in the name of King George III; named by Smith after North Foreland, Kent, the E-most point of land in Kent, as the present feature was the E-most point seen on this voyage. The feature was charted by Discovery Investigations in 1937, when a landing was made on 6 January for the purpose of taking astronomical observations. This feature was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956.