Astrolabe Needle

Astrolabe Needle (-64.13333°N, -62.6°W) is a conspicuous monolith rising 50 m above sea level south of Claude Point, Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. It was discovered by the 1903–1905 French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot and named after the Astrolabe, one of the ships of the 1837–1840 French expedition under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville.