Name details

Essex Point

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

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

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 108712

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

N point of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, was called in error Punta Start (Start Point, q.v.) (Argentina. MM chart MU-III, 1954); photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by FIDS, 1957-58; in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area, named Essex Point after the American sealing ship Essex (Capt. Chester, Chester Cone, q.v.) (APC, 1959a, p.6; DOS 610 sheet W 62 60, 1968). Punta Essex (Hernández P. and Azcárate M., 1971, map p.20).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
62° 34' 33.9" S
-62.57608°
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Longitude:
61° 11' 02.0" W
-61.18389°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
7-Jul-1959

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