Belemnite Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Belemnite 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:
E end of ridge near E coast of Alexander Island, N of Grotto Glacier, was photographed from the air by Ellsworth on 23 November 1935 (Joerg, 1937, map facing p.444); further photographed from the air and roughly surveyed from the ground by BGLE in October 1936 (Stephenson, 1940, map facing p.232); visited by FIDS from "Stonington Island" on 10 December 1948, when the rocks in the area were found to be rich in belemnites; resurveyed by FIDS in 1949 and named from the fossil occurrence (APC, 1955, p.5; DOS sheet W 70 28, 1960; [referring incorrectly to a feature on the coast] BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/10, 1-DOS 1974).
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