# Siddins Point

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**Siddins Point** ([62°32′41.8″S 60°26′05″W](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=62_32_41.8_S_60_26_05_W)) is a point projecting into the middle of the head of [Hero Bay](/source/Hero_Bay) on the north coast of [Livingston Island](/source/Livingston_Island) in the [South Shetland Islands](/source/South_Shetland_Islands), [Antarctica](/source/Antarctica). Named by the [United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee](/source/United_Kingdom_Antarctic_Place-Names_Committee) (UK-APC) in 1958 for Captain [Richard Siddins](/source/Richard_Siddins), Master of the Australian sealer Lynx of Sydney, who visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820-21 and 1821–22. Until 2011 the name was incorrectly spelt 'Siddons Point'.[1]

## Maps

- L.L. Ivanov et al. [Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image%3ALivingston-Greenwich-map.jpg). Scale 1:100000 [topographic map](/source/Topographic_map). Sofia: [Antarctic Place-names Commission](/source/Antarctic_Place-names_Commission) of Bulgaria, 2005.
- L.L. Ivanov. [Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands](http://apcbg.org/image023.jpg). Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

## References

- [Siddins Point.](https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=111176) SCAR [Composite Antarctic Gazetteer](/source/Composite_Antarctic_Gazetteer).

1. [Minutes of Meeting at the British Antarctic Survey, 6 October 2011.](http://new.antarctica.ac.uk/apc/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/APC1102_minutes.pdf) UK Antarctic Place-names Committee, 2011.

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