Name details

Freeman Point

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 2142

Feature type: Point

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

An ice-covered point, just west of Freeman Glacier on Wilkes Coast. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named by USACAN after J.D. Freeman, sailmaker on the sloop Peacock, one of the ships of the US Exploring Expedition (1938-42) under Lieutenant (later Rear Admiral) C. Wilkes, USN.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
66° 10' 44.0" S
-66.17889°
Accurate to 400m
Longitude:
132° 07' 49.0" E
132.13028°
Accurate to 400m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Satellite Image
Source Name:
Australian Antarctic Territory Coastline 2003
Source Identifier:
Metadata ( AAT_Coastline_2003 - Australian Antarctic Territory Coastline 2003 )
Source Scale:
1:25000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Geoscience Australia
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
18-May-1971

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