Thomson Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Thomson 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:
E side of Pirie Peninsula, Laurie Island, on Browns Bay, was surveyed by SNAE in 1903 and named Point Thomson (Bruce and others, chart, [1903c]; Bruce, 1905b, map facing p.322) or Thomson Point (Bruce, 1903-04, p.86; BA chart 1775, 1938; APC, 1955, p.21), after John Arthur (later Sir Arthur) Thomson (1861-1933), Regius Professor of Natural History, University of Aberdeen, 1899-1930. Point Tomson [sic] (Sørlle, chart, 1912). Point Tomsen [sic] (Sørlle and Borge, chart, 1913). Tomsen [sic] Pynten (Sørlle, chart, [1930]). The point was recharted by DI in 1933. Thompson [sic] Point, in error (BA chart 1775, 17.viii.1934). Punta Thomson (Argentina. MM chart 117, 1952).
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