Stenhouse Bluff (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Stenhouse Bluff (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Bluff
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:
at head of Visca Anchorage, (q.v.), Martel Inlet, Admiralty Bay, King George Island, was charted by FAE, 1908-10, in December 1909 (Charcot, 1912, Pl.1); recharted by DI in 1927 and named after Cdr Joseph Russell Stenhouse, RNR (1887-1941), with DI, 1925-27, in command of Discovery; First Mate (later Master) of Aurora on BITAE and with the ship as Second-in-Command of the Ross Sea party, 1914-16 (BA chart 3213, 14.i.1929; APC, 1955, p.20; BA chart 1774, 14.ix.1962). Promontorio Stenhouse (Chile. DNH chart 502, 1947). Morro Stenhouse (Argentina. MM chart 104, 1949; Pierrou, 1970, p.672). Pointe Stenhouse (France. SHM chart 5448, 1949). Punta Stenhouse (Argentina. MM chart 136, 1957; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.268). [Stenhouse Peak, South Georgia, is also named after Cdr J.R. Stenhouse (Hattersley-Smith, 1980b, p.87).]
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