Siddins Point (62°32′41.8″S 60°26′05″W / 62.544944°S 60.43472°W) is a point projecting into the middle of the head of Hero Bay on the north coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1958 for Captain 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]
- ^ Minutes of Meeting at the British Antarctic Survey, 6 October 2011. UK Antarctic Place-names Committee, 2011.