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)
SCAR Gazetteer Information: Each place can have one or more entries in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer, dependant on its origin. By viewing an individual entry, you may see multiple references to the same place. SCAR uses a more general feature type coding, so each place will, in general, have multiple feature types.
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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Rocas, punta de las (ARG) | 63° 24' 00.0" S | 56° 56' 00.0" W | Point |
| Name ID: 102025 Place ID: 14065 | |||
| Stone Point (RUS) | 63° 24' 00.0" S | 56° 57' 00.0" W | Point |
| Name ID: 120802 Place ID: 14065 | |||
| Stone Point (GBR) | 63° 24' 00.0" S | 56° 56' 00.0" W | Point |
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Name ID: 111414
Place ID: 14065
SE entrance point of Hope Bay (q.v.), Trinity Peninsula, was charted by an RN Hydrographic Survey Unit from John Biscoe in February 1952; called by AAE Punta Candado [=pendant point], probably from the 30-m ice wall overhanging the point (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.312 and p.314a, lower view); named Stone Point after Henry William Stone (b.1914), of St John's, Newfoundland, First Mate in the FIDS charter ship Trepassey, 1946-47 (BA chart 3213, 23.x.1953; APC, 1955, p.20; DOS 310 Hope Bay sheet, 1961). Punta Stone (Chile. DNH chart 510, 1955; IHA, 1974, p.269). Punta de las Rocas [=point of the rocks], so called by AAE from the rocks off the point (Argentina. MM chart 124, 1957; Pierrou, 1970, p.629). |
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| Stone Point (USA) | 63° 24' 00.0" S | 56° 56' 00.0" W | Point |
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Name ID: 132206
Place ID: 14065
Point with a small islet lying off it, marking the south side of the entrance to Hope Bay, at the NE end of Antarctic Peninsula. Named by the UK-APC for H.W. Stone, First Mate on the Hunt, RN, in 1952. |
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| Stone, Punta (CHL) | 63° 24' 00.0" S | 56° 58' 00.0" W | Point |
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Name ID: 106320
Place ID: 14065
El Comité Británico de Ubicación y Nombres Antárticos lo denominó con este nombre por el primer piloto de la "Trepassey" entre los años 1946-1947, el levantamiento lo continuó en el año 1952 el teniente comandante F. W. Hunt. Esta punta rocosa constituye el lado S de la entrada a bahía Hope, en la extremidad NE de la península Luis Felipe. |
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