Purdy Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Purdy 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:
Point 1.5 mi ESE of Foul Point on the N coast of Coronation Island, in the South Orkney Islands. First seen in December 1821 in the course of a joint cruise by Capt. George Powell, British sealer, and Capt. Nathaniel Palmer, American sealer, and roughly shown on Powell's chart. Surveyed by the FIDS in 1956-58 and named by the UK-APC in 1959 for John Purdy (1773-1843), a leading English hydrographer of his day, who compiled numerous nautical directories and charts, including the South Orkney Islands, the forerunners of Admiralty sailing directions.
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