Wilton Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Wilton Bay (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Bay
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:
on W side of Mossman Peninsula between Cape Davidson and Cape Hartree, W Laurie Island, was surveyed by SNAE in May 1903 and named after David Walter Wilton (d. 1940), British zoologist and polar explorer; member of the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition to Franz Josef Land, 1896-97, and of SNAE (Bruce and others, chart, 1903b; Bruce, 1905b, map facing p.322; BA chart 1775, 17.viii.1934; APC, 1955, p.22). Whitton [sic] Bay (Bruce and others, chart, [1903c]). Whitson Bay, in error (Cape Whitson, q.v.) (BA, 1916, p.410). Bahía Whitson (Argentina. MM chart 31, 1930). The bay was resurveyed by DI in 1933. Bahía Wilton (Argentina. MM, 1945, p.279; Pierrou, 1970, p.728).
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