Name details

Serac Point

Serac Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Serac Point  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 140201

Feature type: Point

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.

Narrative

Rocky Point at the northern end of the east coast of Clarence Island, mid-way between Cape Lloyd to the north and Sugarloaf Island to the south.

Named For

Named descriptively by the Joint Services Expedition to the Elephant Island Group (JSEEIG) 1976-77. The Point contains a significant colony of chinstrap penguins and is referenced in work by Croxall and Kirkwood (1979).

Location

Latitude:
61° 10' 38.0" S
-61.17722°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
54° 01' 40.0" W
-54.02778°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
USGS Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica and SCAR Antarctic Digital Database in UK APC GIS, 30 m resolution
Source Identifier:
https://apc.antarctica.ac.uk/
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
British Antarctic Survey
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
8-Nov-2018

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