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POINTS OF LAND NAMED.
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from the distance to rise so abruptly as to render it quite inaccessible.
An islet to the northward of Paulet Island was named Eden Islet, after Captain Charles Eden of the Royal Navy; and its lofty southern cape, after Captain William David Puget of the Royal Navy. The low, eastern, extreme point, off which lie the Danger Islets, was called Point Moody, after the Lieutenant Governor of the Falkland Islands: the northern headland of the apparent inlet, the first land seen by us on the evening of the 28th, I named Cape King, and the remarkable rugged cape to the southward, Cape Fitzroy, after my friends, Captain P. P. King, R.N., and Captain R. Fitzroy, R.N., from whose admirable surveys we had derived much advantage.
A wide and deep inlet to the north-west, in which were numerous high, conical, and crater-shaped islets, suggested the belief that there is a passage between Joinville Land and Louis Philippe Land into Bransfield Straits. The low western termination of the land was named Point Bransfield, after Edward Bransfield, Esq., Master of the Royal Navy. The land from Point Bransfield is quite flat for a great distance from the shore towards Mount Percy, and near the centre of this extensive snow-covered plain a very remarkable tower-shaped rock rises to a conspicuous height: it was probably seen by Admiral D'Urville from the northward, at a greater distance, as it is marked on his chart as an "isle supposée," the low land upon which it stands