Jones Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Jones 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:
NE coast of Arctowski Peninsula on 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 photogrammetry and air survey grouped in this area, named after Sir (Bennett) Melvill Jones (1887-1975), author of Aerial surveying by rapid methods (Cambridge, 1925), a pioneer work on the subject; Professor of Aeronautical Engin- eering, Cambridge University, 1919-52 (APC, 1960, p.5; BA chart 3566, 25.viii.1961).
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