Butter Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Butter Point (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Point (8)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Low point forming the S side of the entrance to New Harbor on the coast of Victoria Land. Discovered by the BrNAE (1901-04) under Scott. So named by them because the Ferrar Glacier party left a tin of butter here, in anticipation of obtaining fresh seal meat at this point on the return journey.
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