Name details

Hoffman Point

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 140310

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

An ice-covered coastal point at the south side of the mouth of Bertoglio Glacier, where the latter flows into Ross Ice Shelf, and opposite Cape Lankester to the north. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-ML07

Named For

Mapped by the United State Geological Survey (USGS) from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1959-63. Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Commander G.L. Hoffman, Civil Engineer Corps, U.S. Navy, commander of Mobile Construction Battalion Eight at McMurdo Station in U.S. Navy (USN) Operation Deep Freeze (OpDFrz) 1964.

Location

Latitude:
79° 19' 29.0" S
-79.32472°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
160° 34' 00.8" E
160.56689°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
200 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 20_34 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
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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