Quinton Point (64°19′S 63°41′W / 64.317°S 63.683°W / -64.317; -63.683Coordinates: 64°19′S 63°41′W / 64.317°S 63.683°W / -64.317; -63.683) is a point at the north side of the entrance to Perrier Bay, on the northwest coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. First charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, it was named by Charcot after Rene Quinton, French naturalist, then assistant at the Laboratoire de Pathologie Physiologique, College de France.
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