Christmas, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Christmas (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Cape
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
N entrance point of W st Inlet, Black Coast, was photographed from the air by USAS in December 1940 and by RARE in 1947; surveyed from the ground by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in December 1947 and so named because the survey party spent Christmas Day in the vicinity (BA chart 3175, 12.xi.1954; APC, 1955, p.7; USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979). Cabo Christmas (Argentina. MM chart 110, 1957). Mys Kristmas (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).
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