Watson Peninsula (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Watson Peninsula (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Peninsula
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:
between Macdougal Bay and Marr Bay, Laurie Island, terminating in Cape Valavielle, was charted by SNAE in 1903 and named after George Lennox Watson (1851-1904), naval architect and yacht builder of Glasgow, who redesigned the expedition ship Scotia (Scotia Bay, q.v.) (Bruce, 1905b, map facing p.322; BA, 1930, p.50; APC, 1955, p.22). PenĂnsula Watson (Argentina. IGM map 104, 1933). The bay was recharted by DI in 1933.
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