Name details

Loubet Coast

Loubet Coast (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Loubet Coast  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 109907

Feature type: Coast

Origin

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:

Narrative

W coast of Graham Land from Cape Bellue to head of Bourgeois Fjord, was roughly charted by FAE, 1903-05, and further charted by FAE 1908-10. The name Terre Loubet was applied to the mainland coast E of Adelaide Island, with N and S limits undefined, after Émile François Loubet (1839-1929), President of France, 1899-1906, and Patron of FAE, 1903-05, whose name was originally applied to Adelaide Island (q.v.) (Charcot, 1910, p.85-88 and map facing p.370). Loubet Land (Charcot, 1911a, map facing p.348). Loubet Coast ([with limits undefined] Shackleton, 1919, end map; BA, 1930, p.84; [with present definition] BA chart 3570, 5.i.1951; APC, 1955, p.14; BA chart 3570, 29.ix.1961). Loubet Kust (Shackleton, [1921], end map). Tierra de Loubet (Hoxmark, 1924). Loubet Küste (Drygalski, 1930, p.327). Loubetkysten (Aagaard, 1930, end map). The coast was further charted by BGLE in 1935-36. Loubert [sic] Coast (USAAF chart [LR-74], 1942). Costa Loubet (Argentina. IGM map, 1946; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.189). Costa de Loubet (Chile. DNH chart LII, 1947). Tierra Loubet (Sgrosso, 1948, p.182). Loubet Island, presumably in error for this feature (James, 1949, p.56). The coast was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57. Costa Loube [sic] (Argentina. MM chart 110, 1957). Bereg Lube (Soviet Union. MMF chart 1961).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
67° 00' 00.0" S
-67.00000°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
67° 00' 00.0" W
-67.00000°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
21-Nov-1949

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