Newport Point is the south entrance point to Horseshoe Bay in west Ross Island. Newport Point was named by the New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB) after Terry Newport, a carpenter in the NZ Antarctic Programme, who perished in a helicopter crash near this point in October 1992.
This article incorporates public domain material from "Newport Point". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
77°32′S 166°10′E / 77.533°S 166.167°E
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