Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Rowe Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Rowe Point (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Point
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:
SE side of Barclay Bay, Livingston Island, was photographed from the air and surveyed from the ground by FIDASE, 1955-57; in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area, named after Capt. Henry Rowe, Master of the British sealing ship Grace from Plymouth (Grace Rock, q.v.), who visited the South Shetland Islands, 1821-22, and moored at New Plymouth, Livingston Island, for the season (APC, 1962, p.27; BA chart 3205, 23.xi.1962).
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