Gauthier Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Gauthier 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 Doumer Island and NE entrance point of Security Bay, off SE Anvers Island, was charted by FAE, 1903-05, and named Pointe Gauthier after M. Gauthier, Director of the Saint-Malo shipyard where the expedition ships Français and Pourquoi-Pas? were built (Charcot, 1906b, p.xi, 472). Pointe Gautier [sic] (Matha and Rey, 1911, p.34). The point was resurveyed by FIDS from "Port Lockroy" in 1944. Punta Gautier [sic] (Argentina. MM chart 106, 1949; Pierrou, 1970, p.385). Gauthier Point (BA chart 3213, 6.x.1950; APC, 1955, p.10; BA chart 3572, 25.vii.1958). Punta Gauthier (Argentina. MM, 1960a, p.9; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.136).
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