Rae, Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Point Rae (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:
NE entrance point of Scotia Bay, Laurie Island, was mapped by SNAE in 1903 and named after Dr John Rae (1813-93), Scottish Arctic explorer who, while employed by the Hudson Bay Company as a surgeon, 1833-54, made a number of journeys to the Canadian Arctic coast, returning in 1854 with the first authentic evidence bearing on the fate of the Franklin expedition, 1845-?48 (Bruce and others, chart, [1903c]; Bruce, 1905b, map facing p.322; BA chart 1775, 17.viii.1934; APC, 1955, p.17). Punta Rae (Argentina. MM chart 31, 1930; Pierrou, 1970, p.615). The point was further charted by DI in 1933. Point Rea [sic] (USHO, 1943, p.73).
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