Name details

Gentile Point

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 140305

Feature type: Point

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A rounded, ice-covered point at the north of Grazzini Bay, and 13.5km north of Cape Parr, extending seaward from Darley Hills on the west side of Ross Ice Shelf.

Named For

Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Peter A. Gentile, Master of U.S. Naval Ship (USNS) Alatna in U.S. Navy (USN) Operation Deep Freeze (OpDFrz) 1961, and of U.S. NavyS Chattahoochee which made four fuel-carrying trips between New Zealand and McMurdo Sound in U.S. Navy (USN) Operation Deep Freeze (OpDFrz) 1963.

Location

Latitude:
81° 06' 44.2" S
-81.11229°
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Longitude:
160° 47' 41.1" E
160.79476°
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Altitude:
87 m
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
0.5m Antarctic Imagery Mosaic, DigitalGlobe Inc 2018
Source Identifier:
102001001DC3DD00
Source Scale:
1:1889.76
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
20-May-1965

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