McCall Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
McCall 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:
E side of Lallemand Fjord, Loubet Coast, was photographed from the air by FIDASE and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Detaille Island", 1956-59; in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area, named after Dr John Gill McCall (1923-54), American engineer of the University of Alaska, who first measured the detailed internal movement of a cirque glacier (Vesle-Skautbreen, Jotunheimen, Norway), 1951-52 (APC, 1960, p.5; BA, 1961, p.189; BAS 250P sheet SQ 19-20/14 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978).
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