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)
Thanaron Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Thanaron Point (The name as it would appear on a map)
If this information is incorrect, please e-mail mapping@aad.gov.au
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:
between Cape Roquemaurel and Marescot Point, Trinity Peninsula, was roughly charted by FAE, 1837-40, on 27 February 1838 and named Cap Tannaron [sic] after Lieut. de Vaisseau Charles-Jules-Adolphe Thanaron (b. 1809) of the expedition ship Zélée (d'Urville, 1838, map following p.1170). Following survey by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in September 1946, when this feature could not be identified, the name of Thanaron was applied to Hanson Hill (q.v.). The feature was later identified in FIDASE air photographs of 1956-57. Thanaron Point (APC, 1964, p.4; BAS 250 sheet SP 21-22/13, 1-DOS 1974).
No images of this place could be found.
Biodiversity
View
fauna,
flora or
both
within 1.0 degree of this location
Place names
View
British or
international
place names within 1.0 degree of this location.