Name details

Piggott Peninsula

Piggott Peninsula (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Piggott Peninsula  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 110623

Feature type: Peninsula

Origin

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:

Narrative

between New Bedford Inlet (q.v.) and Wright Inlet (q.v.), Lassiter Coast, is bounded to the W by Bryan Glacier and Swann Glacier (DOS 610 sheet W7360, 1957; USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969); in association with the names of atmospheric physicists grouped in this area, was named after Dr William Roy Piggott (b.1919), British ionosphericist and Head, Atmospheric Sciences Division, BAS, 1973-79 (APC, 1986, p.4).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
73° 43' 00.0" S
-73.71667°
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Longitude:
61° 20' 00.0" W
-61.33333°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
13-Nov-1985

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