Turret, The (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
The Turret (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Promontory
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:
headland rising to 460 m SE of Gibbon Bay, E Coronation Island, was probably sighted by Powell and Palmer in December 1821; charted by DI in 1933 and named descriptively (BA chart 1775, 17.viii.1934; APC, 1955, p.21; DOS 510 South Orkney Islands, West Sheet, 1963). Promontorio Almena [=turret promontory] (Argentina. MM chart 117, 1952; Pierrou, 1970, p.158). La Torre [=the tower] (Argentina. MM chart 31, 1954). The feature was surveyed by FIDS from Signy, 1956-58.
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