Edwards Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Edwards 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:
S point of Robert Island and SE entrance point of English Strait, was charted by DI in 1935 and named after Victor M. Edwards, draughtsman in the Admiralty Hydrographic Office at the time (Nelson and others, chart, 1935b; BA chart 1774, 9.vii.1948; APC, 1955, p.9; BA chart 1774, 14.ix.1962). Punta Prat, after Capt. Arturo Prat Chacón, of the Chilean Navy, hero of the naval battle of Iquique, 21 May 1879 (Guesalaga Peninsula, q.v.) (Chile. DNH chart 1400, 1961; IHA, 1974, p.230). Prat Point (Fuenzalida, 1964, p.52).
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