Saunders Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Saunders 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:
S point of a small near-shore island in Orwell Bight, Coronation Island, was charted by DI in 1933, as part of the main island, and named after Alfred Saunders (1900-82), DI laboratory assistant and photographer, who took part in the survey of this feature; at "Marine Station", Grytviken each season, 1925-31, and in Discovery II, 1929-39 ([as part of the main island] BA chart 1775, 17.viii.1934; APC, 1955, p.18; [correctly shown] DOS 510 South Orkney Islands, West Sheet, 1963). Punta Saunders (Argentina. CNA, 1947, map p.45; Pierrou, 1970, p.655). The point was surveyed by FIDS from Signy, 1956-58.
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