Suffield Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Suffield 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:
SW entrance point of Norma Cove, Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, was charted by DI, 1934-35, and named after William E. Suffield, boatswain in Discovery II, 1929-39, who took part in the survey of the South Orkney Islands in January 1933 (Nelson and others, chart, 1935b; BA, 1942, p.41; chart 1774, 9.vii.1948; APC, 1955, p.20; BA chart 1774, 14.ix.1962). Punta Suffield (Argentina. MM chart 104, 1949; Pierrou, 1970, p.676; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.270). The point was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by FIDS, 1957-59. Grikurov Point or Przyla dek Grikurova, so called by PAE after G. Grikurov (Grikurov Ridge, q.v.) (Birkenmajer, 1984, p.170). Pontal Stoffels (Brazil. PenĂnsula Fildes map, 1984 )
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