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Bowman, Costa (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Bowman, Costa (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Coast (7)
This name originates from Chile. It is part of the Chile Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Descubierta por Sir Hubert Wilkins, durante un vuelo del 20 de diciembre de 1928, quien le puso el nombre por el apellido de Isaiah Bowman, en ese entonces director de la Sociedad Geográfica Americana. En algunas cartas y publicaciones figuró como costa De Bowman. Recibe este nombre el tramo de la costa oriental de la península Tierra de O'Higgins que se extiende desde el cabo Northrop hasta el cabo Agassiz.
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