Garnerin Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Garnerin 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:
SW entrance point of Plata Passage, Wilhelmina Bay, Danco Coast, was photographed from the air by FIDASE and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Danco Island", 1956-57; in association with the names of pioneers of aviation grouped in this area, named after André Jacques Garnerin (1769-1823), French physicist and aeronaut, the first man to make a successful descent from a free balloon by parachute, 22 October 1797 (APC, 1960, p.4; BA chart 3566, 25.viii.1961). Garnèrin [sic] Point (USOO chart 6945, 1963).
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