Stigant Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Stigant 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:
WSW of Davey Point, NW King George Island, was charted by DI, 1934-35, and named after George Bertie Stigant (1889-1973), cartographer and linguist, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, 1910-55 (Superintending Cartographer, 1935-51) (Nelson and others, chart 1935c; BA chart 3205, 25.iii.1937; APC, 1958, p.6; BA chart 3205, 23.xi.1962). Punta Stigant (Argentina. MM chart 64, 1939; Pierrou, 1970, p.673; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.268). Pointe Stigant (France. SHM, 1954, p.44). Stignant [sic] Point, in error (APC, 1955, p.20). The point was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57. Punta Stigan [sic] (Argentina. MM, 1957a, p.41). Mys Stigant (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).
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