Name details

Entrance Point

Entrance Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Entrance Point  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 108695

Feature type: Point

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

marking S entrance via Neptunes Bellows of Port Foster, Deception Island, was known to the nineteenth-century sealers; called Punta Caupolicán by CAE, 1947, after Caupolicán, hero of the Arauco War in the sixteenth century (Chile. DNH chart 501, 1947; IHA, 1974, p.70); following survey by an RN Hydrographic Survey Unit, 1948-49, named Entrance Point (BA chart 3202, 23.ix.1949; APC, 1955, p.9). Punta Entrada [translation of English name] (Argentina. MM chart 100, 1953; Pierrou, 1970, p.342). Pointe Entrance (France. SHM, 1954, p.46). Punta Fildes, in error for Fildes Point (q.v.) (Zavatti, 1958, Tav. 9).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
62° 59' 53.6" S
-62.99822°
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Longitude:
60° 33' 08.0" W
-60.55222°
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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:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
15-Nov-1951

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