Taylor Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Taylor 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:
N entrance point of Destruction Bay, E King George Island, was roughly charted by DI in 1937 and photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956; in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area, named after Capt. Daniel Taylor, Master of the sealing ship Caroline from Hobart, Tasmania (Caroline Bluff, q.v.), who visited the South Shetland Islands, 1821-22 (APC, 1960, p.7; DOS 610 sheet W 62 56, 1968). Mys Teylor (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl.175).
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