Foul Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Foul 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:
N point of small island forming W entrance of Ommaney Bay, Coronation Island, was roughly charted by Powell and Palmer in December 1821 and so named presumably because of off-shore rocks (Powell, chart, 1822a; BA chart 1238, 7.ix.1839; 1775, 17.viii.1934; APC, 1955, p.10; DOS 510 South Orkney Islands, West Sheet, 1963). Pointe Foul (Powell, 1824a, map facing p.5). Cap Foul (Friederichen, 1895, Tafel 7 facing p. 304). Punta Faul [sic] (Riso Patron S., 1908, end map). The feature was further charted by Sørlle, 1912-13. Faul [sic] Point (Sørlle, chart, 1912). Foul Pynten (Sørlle, chart, [1930]). Punta Peligrosa [=dangerous point] (Argentina. MM chart 31, 1930; Pierrou, 1970, p.581). The feature was recharted by DI in 1933. Punta Foul (Argentina. CNA, 1947, map p.45). Punta Pellgrosa [sic] (Argentina. IGM map, 1952). The feature was surveyed from the ground by FIDS from Signy, 1956-58. Mys Faul (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).
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