Kusunoki Point [SEP] continent
Kusunoki Point
Kusunoki Point () is a point on the west coast and near the north end of Renaud Island, in the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. It was mapped from air photos by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd, 1956–57, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Kou Kusunoki, a Japanese sea ice specialist at Hokkaido University, and from 1966 with the National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo.
William Purefoy
William Purefoy (c. 1580 – 8 Sep 1659) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1628 and 1659. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War and was one of the regicides of King Charles I of England.
Born into a long-established Warwickshire family, Purefoy was educated at Cambridge University and Gray's Inn. He travelled extensively on the continent of Europe, returning with extreme Calvinist views.
He was elected Member of Parliament for Coventry