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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Hannah Point (RUS) 62° 39' 00.0" S 60° 36' 00.0" W Point
Name ID: 118361 Place ID: 5965

Hannah Point (GBR) 62° 39' 16.0" S 60° 36' 48.3" W Point
Name ID: 109193 Place ID: 5965

dividing Walker Bay from South Bay, Livingston Island, was roughly charted by Fildes in 1820-21 and called descriptively Black Point (Fildes, 1821b, chart [3]); recharted by DI in 1935; following air photography by FIDASE and ground survey by FIDS, 1956-58, and in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area, named Hannah Point after the sealing ship Hannah (Capt. James Johnson), of Liverpool, which was wrecked in the South Shetlands Islands, 25 December 1820 (APC, 1959a p.7; BA chart 3205, 25.xi.1962). Punta Sub. Ribes, probably after a junior officer of AAE (Argentina. MM chart 139, 1959). Punta Sur [=south point], in association with South Bay (del Valle and others, 1974, Fig.4, p.23).

Hannah Point (USA) 62° 39' 00.0" S 60° 37' 00.0" W Point
Name ID: 126168 Place ID: 5965

Point forming the E side of the entrance to Walker Bay on the S coast of Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Named by the UK-APC in 1958 after the sealer Hannah of Liverpool, which visited the South Shetland Islands and was wrecked there on Dec. 25, 1820.

Hannah, punta (ARG) 62° 39' 00.0" S 60° 38' 00.0" W Point
Name ID: 101105 Place ID: 5965

Ribes, punta (ARG) 62° 39' 00.0" S 60° 38' 00.0" W Point
Name ID: 102000 Place ID: 5965

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