Moureaux Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Moureaux 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 point of Liège Island, Palmer Archipelago, was charted by FAE, 1903-05, and named Pointe Moureaux after T. Moureaux, Head of the Magnetic Service, Parc Saint-Maur, Paris, at the time (Charcot, 1906a, map facing p.316; BA, 1916, p.403). Moureaux Point (BA chart 3205, vii.1909; 25.iii.1937; APC, 1955, p.15; BA chart 3205, 23.xi.1962). Cape Moureaux (Lester, 1920-22a, Vol.6, p.145). Moureaux P. (HA chart, 1928). Punta Moureaux (Chile. DNH chart LI, 1947; Pierrou, 1970, p.534; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.205). Punta Moreaux [sic] (Argentina. MM chart OO, 1954). Monreaux [sic] Point (USHO, 1956, p.20). The point was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57.
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