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)
Ray Promontory (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Ray Promontory (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Promontory (8)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A promontory 4 mi long which forms the NW termination of Byers Peninsula and Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands. Start Point marks the NW extremity of the promontory. Named by the UK-APC in 1977 after Capt. Nathaniel Ray, Master of the American schooner Harmony, of Nantucket, which carried on sealing operations from Harmony Cove, Nelson Island, 1820-21.
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