Moreton Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Moreton 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:
N entrance point of Fulmar Bay, W Coronation Island, was roughly charted by Powell and Palmer in 1821, and called Cap Ouest [=west cape] (Powell, 1824a, map facing p.5); recharted by DI in 1933 and named Moreton Point after Harold Vane Moreton, Boatswain's Mate in Discovery II, 1929-31, 1931-33 and 1933-35 (BA chart 1775, 17.vii.1934; APC, 1955, p.15). Punta Moreton (Argentina. MM, 1945, p.275; Pierrou, 1970, p.531).
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