SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Hope Point

Hope Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Hope Point (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 6584
Name ID: 2153

Feature type: Point

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Hope Point (United States of America)

Narrative

A bluff forming the western end of Bertha Island on the eastern side of the entrance to William Scoresby Bay, Kemp Land.

Named For

Discovered and named by the William Scoresby Expedition (1936).

Location

Latitude:

67° 22' 40.4" S

-67.37789°

Accurate to 100m

Longitude:

59° 36' 13.6" E

59.60378°

Accurate to 100m

Altitude:

Not recorded

Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:

Satellite Image

Source Name:

Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica (LIMA)

Source Identifier:

LIMA E150_CIR_432_1X

Source Scale:

1:20000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Unknown

Date approved:

18-May-1971

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