Aurora Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Aurora Point (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Point
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer.
A point on the mid-western coast of Macquarie Island.
This is one of the names first applied by the Admiralty in the preparation of the 1917 edition of Chart no 1022. It may possibly as Mawson suggests be named after the brig Aurora which visited the Island immediately after its discovery, but the sequence of Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14 names applied by the Admiralty to features on the west coast and the absence of any other "new" names which indicate research into the early history of the Island during the preparation of the 1917 chart favours the view that the name commemorates the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14's ship SY Aurora .
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