Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Church, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Church (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Cape
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
on Seligman Inlet, Bowman Coast, was photographed from the air by USAS in 1940; surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Stonington Island" and "Hope Bay" in 1947; in association with the names of other glaciologists grouped in this area, named after Prof. James Edward Church (1869-1959), of the Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Nevada; American glaciologist who developed techniques of snow surveying and melt-water run-off forecast (BA chart 3570, 27.vi.1952; APC, 1955, p.7; DCS 601 sheet 67 64, 1955). Cabo Church (Argentina. MM chart 110, 1957; Pierrou, 1970, p.290; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.76). Punta Zenteno, after Gen. José Ignacio Zenteno, Secretary for War to General B. O'Higgins in 1817 (Chile. DNH chart LIII, 1947).
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