Gourlay Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Gourlay 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:
SE point of Signy Island and S entrance point of Rock Haven, was charted by DI in 1933 and named after Ronald George Gourlay (1900-86), engineer in Discovery, 1925-27, and in Discovery II, 1929-39 (Nelson and others, chart, 1933; BA chart 1775, 17.viii.1934; APC, 1955, p.11; DOS 210 Signy Island sheet, 1-DOS 1973). Pointe Gourlay (France. SHM, 1937, p.390). Punta Gourlay (Argentina. MM chart 117, 1952; Pierrou, 1970, p.398). The point was resurveyed by FIDS, 1947-51. [George Rock, South Georgia, is also named after R.G. Gourlay (Hattersley-Smith, 1980b, p.41).]
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