Rip Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Rip Point (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Point
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:
NW entrance point of Edgell Bay, Nelson Island, and SE entrance point of Fildes Strait, was charted by DI, 1934-35, and so named from the tidal rip in this locality (Nelson and others, chart, 1935g; BA chart 1774, 9.vii.1948; APC, 1955, p.18; DOS 610 sheet W 62 58, 1968). Punta Rip (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.209; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.242).
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