Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Alden, Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Point Alden (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Point
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:
An ice-covered point with rock exposures along its seaward side, about 22 km north-west of Cape Hunter in George V Land. Discovered on 30 January, 1930, by the US Exploring Expedition (1838-42), under Wilkes, who named it after Lieut. James Alden of the expedition's flagship Vincennes.
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