False Island Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
False Island 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 Vega Island and SW entrance point of Pastorizo Bay, Erebus and Terror Gulf, was roughly mapped as an island by SwAE in February 1902; resurveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in 1945, shown to be connected to Vega Island by an isthmus, and named descriptively (BA chart 3205, 23.ix.1949; APC, 1955, p.9; BAS 250 sheet SP 21-22/13, 1-DOS 1974). Punta Isla Falsa (Chile. DNH chart L, 1951). Punta Falsa Isla (Cordini, 1955, p.64; Pierrou, 1970, p.357; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.121). Mys Fols-Ayland (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).
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