Gallows Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Gallows 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:
NE point of Gamma Island, Melchior Islands, Dallmann Bay, was roughly charted by DI in 1927 and probably named at that time (BA chart 3213, 14.i.1929; APC, 1955, p.10; BA chart 3213, 23.iii.1956); recharted by AAE in 1942, 1943 and 1948. Gallow's Point (USHO, 1943, p.41). Punta Gallows (Argentina. IGM map, 1946; Pierrou, 1970, p.382; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.133). The Argentine station "Melchior" (Gamma Island, q.v.) was established S of the point in 1947.
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