Name details

Williamson Bluff

Williamson Bluff (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Williamson Bluff  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 111960

Feature type: Bluff

Origin

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:

Narrative

rising to 1010m at head of Trail Inlet, Bowman Coast, was surveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island", 1947-48; in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area, named after The Rev. William Williamson (1804-75), English mathematician and law- yer, who made one of the earliest measurements of the surface flow of a glacier, in Switzerland in 1844 (APC, 1977, p.35).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
68° 05' 00.0" S
-68.08333°
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Longitude:
65° 41' 00.0" W
-65.68333°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
21-Jul-1976

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