Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Ponce Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Ponce Island (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island
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:
off Cape Legoupil, Trinity Peninsula, was charted by CAE, 1947-48; following geological work by a USARP field party from the University of Wisconsin, named after Lautaro Ponce, Chief of Antarctic Operations, University of Chile, which supported the field work in the area, 1960-61 and 1961-62 (Halpern, 1964, map Fig.2, p.335; APC, 1986, p.4).
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