Lapidary Point

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

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

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Place ID: 8125
Name ID: 109733

Feature type: Point

Origin

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:

Narrative

W entrance point of Rocky Cove, Maxwell Bay, King George Island, following surveys by SAE from "Bellingshausen Station" from 1968, was named Mys Kamennyy [= rocky cape] (Grikurov and Polyakov, 1968, map p.18) or Cape Kamennyy (Grikurov and Polyakov, 1971, map p.190). Lapidary Point (APC, 1980, p.4). Mys Kamennyj, Stony Point (Birkenmajer, 1982c, p.186). Pontal Das Pedras (Brazil. PenĂ­nsula Fildes map, 1984 ).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
62° 11' 47.8" S
-62.19661°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
58° 56' 00.9" W
-58.93358°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
7-Feb-1978

Related information

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