Guéguen Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Guéguen 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:
S point of Hovgaard Island, Graham Coast, was charted by FAE, 1903-05, in 1904 and named Pointe Guéguen after J. Guéguen, a sailor in the expedition ship Français and later in Pourquoi-Pas?, 1908-10, who had also accompanied Charcot to Jan Mayen Island in 1902 (Charcot, 1906b, p.474). Pointe J. Guéguen (Matha and Rey, 1911, Pl.3). The point was photographed from the air by FIDASE and surveyed from the ground by FIDS-RN, 1956-58 (APC, 1959a, p.7; BA chart 3572, 12.viii.1960).
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