Lamb Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Lamb 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 entrance point of Howkins Inlet, Lassiter Coast, was photographed from the air by USAS on 30 December 1940; surveyed from the ground by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in December 1947; in association with the names of Antarctic meteorologists grouped in this area, named after Dr Hubert Horace Lamb (b. 1913), English meteorologist; forecaster with the British whale factory ship Balµna in the Southern Ocean, 1946-47; he deduced the position and configuration of parts of the Antarctic coastline from purely meteorological reasoning (BA chart 3175, 12.xi.1954; [in 73°41'S 60°48'W] APC, 1955, p.13; DOS 601 sheet W 73 60, 1957; [co-ordinates corrected] USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1977, p.19). Cabo Wheeler, in error (Cape Wheeler, q.v.) (Argentina. IGM map, 1954). Punta Lamb (Argentina. MM chart 121, 1957). Mys Lam (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The point was photographed from the air by USN, 1965-67, and mapped from air photographs by USGS.
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