Tophet Bastion

Tophet Bastion stands to the east of Saunders Point, in the south-east of Coronation Island amongst the South Orkney Islands in the British Antarctic Territory.

This cliff was roughly charted by Discovery Investigations in 1933; surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Signy in 1948-49, and so named after the biblical Tophet, a high place used for heathen sacrifice near Jerusalem. It was further surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1956-58.

Location

• Location map: 60°42’0"S, 45°18’-0"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Tophet Bastion