Lenton Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Lenton 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 side of Clowes Bay, Signy Island, was surveyed by FIDS in 1947 and named after Ralph Anthony Lenton (1923-86), FIDS radio operator, Signy, 1947-48, who assisted with the survey and biological work; radio operator, "Admiralty Bay", 1948-50; Base Leader, "Deception Island", 1951-52, "Port Lockroy", 1952-53, Faraday, 1954-55; with TAE as Deputy-Leader of the advance party, "Shackleton", 1955-56, and as station carpenter and as radio operator on the trans-polar journey, 1956-58 (APC, 1955, p.13; Matthews and Maling, 1967, map; DOS 210 Signy Island sheet, 1-DOS 1973).
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