Name details

Matkah Point

Matkah Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Matkah Point  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 110043

Feature type: Point

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

N entrance point of Holluschickie Bay, James Ross Island, was probably sighted by SwAE in October 1903 (Nordenskjöld and others, 1905, map facing p.316); surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in December 1945 and, in association with the bay and with Kotick Point, named after Matkah, the mother seal in Kipling's The White Seal (APC, 1958, p.5; BAS 250 sheet SP 21-22/13, 1-DOS 1974).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
63° 57' 16.0" S
-63.95444°
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Longitude:
58° 19' 53.0" W
-58.33139°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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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:
4-Sep-1957

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