O'Neill Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
O'Neill 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 Lautaro Island (q.v.), Danco Coast, following survey by FIDS from "Danco Island", 1957-58, was named after Vincent Michael O'Neill (b. 1928), FIDS radio operator/mechanic, "Danco Island", 1957-58, and "Deception Island", 1958-59, who was a member of a 3-man party that circumnavigated Bryde Island by dinghy in 1957 (BAS 250P sheet SQ 19-20/3, 1-DOS 1979; APC, 1980, p.4). Punta Independéncia, so called by AAE in honour of the declaration of Argentine independence, 9 July 1816 (Argentina. MD, 1978, letter I).
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