Quinton Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Quinton 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 Perrier Bay, N Anvers Island, was roughly charted by FAE, 1903-05, and named Pointe Quinton after René Quinton (1867-1925), French naturalist, then assistant at the Laboratoire de Pathologie Physiologique, Collège de France (Charcot, 1906b, p.471; Matha and Rey, 1911, Pl.3 following p.615). Point Quinton (USHO, 1943, p.128). Punta Quinton (Argentina. MM chart 106, 1949; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.235). The point was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956. Quinton Point (APC, 1959a, p.10; BA chart 3570, 29.ix.1961).
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