Ponton Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Ponton Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island
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:
near head of Flandres Bay, Danco Coast, E of Moureaux Islands, was roughly charted by FAE, 1903-05 (Lecointe, 1903, chart 5); called Isla Solitario [=lonely island] by AAE because of its mistakenly thought isolated position (Argentina. MM chart Ñ, 1954). Islote Solitario (Argentina. MM, 1956, p.81; Pierrou, 1970, p.668). El Solitario (Argentina. MM, 1957a, p.114). The island was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; in association with the names of pioneers of photography grouped in this area, named after Mungo Ponton (1802-80), Scottish inventor who, in 1839, discovered that potassium bichromate spread on paper was light-sensitive, an important landmark in the development of photography (APC, 1960, p.6).
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