Name details

North Point

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

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

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 110386

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 point of Signy Island, was roughly charted by nineteenth-century sealers and further charted by Norwegian whalers; called Cape Underset, presumably because of its position in relation to Coronation Island to the N (Moe, chart, 1913a); recharted by DI in 1933 and named descriptively North Point (Nelson and others, chart, 1933; BA chart 1775, 17.viii.1934; APC, 1955, p.16; DOS 510 South Orkney Islands, West Sheet, 1963; 210 Signy Island sheet, 1-DOS 1973). Punta Norte (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.184).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
60° 40' 18.0" S
-60.67167°
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Longitude:
45° 37' 33.0" W
-45.62583°
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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:
8-Sep-1953

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