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Vorweg Point
Vorweg Point
is a point
northwest
of
Huitfeldt Point
on the
southwest
side of
Barilari Bay
, on the
west coast
of
Graham Land
. Charted by the
British Graham Land Expedition
under
Rymill
, 1934–37. Named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
in
1959
for O. Vorweg,
German
pioneer
exponent of
skiing
and author of
Das Schneeschuh Laufen
,
probably
the earliest manual on skiing.