John Beach (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
John Beach (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Beach
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:
forming W entrance of Walker Bay (q.v.), Livingston Island, was roughly charted by Fildes, 1820-21, and called descriptively Black Point (Fildes, 1821b, chart [3]; DI chart, [1935a]); recharted by DI in 1935; photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area and with the name of the bay, named after the brig John (Capt. J. Walker) of London, which was sealing in the South Shetland Islands, 1820-21 and 1821-22 (APC, 1959a, p.8; DOS 610 sheet W 62 60, 1968).
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