Stony Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Stony 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:
W entrance point of Oscar Cove and SE entrance point of Ferguson Channel, Danco Coast, was roughly charted by CAE, 1950-51, as a small island and called Islote Sandra after a relative of a member of the expedition (Chile. DNH chart 511, 1951; IHA, 1974, p.254). Punta Piedras [=stones point], so called descriptively by AAE (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.256; Pierrou, 1970, p.592). Punta Popa [=poop point] (Argentina. MM chart 106a, 1954). The point was photographed from the air by FIDASE and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Danco Island", 1956-57. Stony Point (APC, 1980, p.5).
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