Name details

Fallières Coast

Fallières Coast (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Fallières Coast  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 108750

Feature type: Coast

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

W coast of Graham Land from head of Bourgeois Fjord to Cape Jeremy, was in part roughly charted by FAE, 1908-10, on 15 January 1909. The name Terre Fallières was applied to the coast between the S entrance of Bourgeois Fjord and the limit of FAE discoveries in c.69°00'S, after Clément Armand Fallières (1841-1931), President of France, 1906-13, who in March 1906 approved the appointment of the Commission Scientifique for FAE, 1903-05 (Charcot, 1910, map facing p.370; 1912, Pl.1). Fallières Küste (Nordenskjöld, 1911a, Karte 1). Fallières Land (Charcot, 1911b, map facing p.348). Terres Fallières (Bongrain, 1914, vue 36 following p.36). Fallières Coast (Shackleton, 1919, end map; BA, 1930, p.84; [head of Bourgeois Fjord to Cape Berteaux] USBGN, 1947, p.162; [as now defined] BA chart 3570, 5.i.1951; APC, 1955, p.9; DCS 601 sheet 68 66, 1955; USBGN, 1956, p.124; DOS 610 sheet W 69 68, 1963). Fallières Kust (Shackleton, [1921], end map). Tierra de Fallières (Hoxmark, 1924). Fallières Kysten (Aagaard, 1930, end map). Resurvey of the whole coast by BGLE in 1936-37 led to its redefinition. Costa de Fallières (Argentina. IGM map, 1946). Tierra Fallières (Sgrosso, 1948, p.182). The coast was further surveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island", 1948-49. Costa Fallières (Argentina. MM chart 110, 1949; Pierrou, 1970, p.358; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.121). Terra de Hearst, referring to S part (Hearst Island, q.v.) (Zavatti, 1958, Tav. 9). Faillières [sic] Kust (Knapp, 1958, p.573). Faillières [sic] Coast (BA, 1961, p.172). Bereg Fal'yera (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Failiepes [sic] Coast (USAF chart GNC-24, 1976).

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Location

Latitude:
68° 30' 00.0" S
-68.50000°
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Longitude:
67° 00' 00.0" W
-67.00000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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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:
21-Nov-1949

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