Loqui Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Loqui 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 Barilari Bay, Graham Coast, was charted by FAE, 1903-05, and called Cap Garcia after Contra-Almte García, of the Argentine Navy (Charcot, 1906a, map facing p.316), whose name was later applied to the N entrance point of the bay (Cape Garcia, q.v.). Cape García (BA chart 1238, ix.1908). The cape was further charted by BGLE in 1935-36. Cabo García (Argentina. IGM map, 1946). The point was subsequently renamed Loqui Point after Capt. Loqui, of the Argentine Navy, who as Governor of Tierra del Fuego assisted FAE at Ushuaia in January 1904 and whose name had previously been applied to Cape Garcia (Charcot, 1906b, p.xxxvi, 475) (APC, 1955, p.14; BA chart 3570, 21.ix.1957; DOS 610 sheet W 65 64, 1959). Punta Loqui (Chile. DNH chart 1502, 1962; IHA, 1974, p.188). The point was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57.
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