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Dufek Head (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Dufek Head (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Head (8)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Feature n.61 in ACAN minutes of 19/06/2000. An ice-covered headland 4.4 mi NE of Tyree Head in S Ross Island. The headland rises to 620 m the E side of the terminus of Aurora Glacier. Named by US-ACAN (2000) in association with Tyree Head, q.v., after R Adm. George J. Dufek, USN (1903-77), Commander, U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica, 1954-59. (This naming replaces a 1999 US-ACAN recommendation to name a point on Ross Island for Admiral Dufek. That recommendation had to be withdrawn because the feature was pre-empted by Micou Point.)
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