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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Cape Church (GBR) 67° 51' 00.0" S 65° 30' 00.0" W Cape
Name ID: 108204 Place ID: 2688

on Seligman Inlet, Bowman Coast, was photographed from the air by USAS in 1940; surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Stonington Island" and "Hope Bay" in 1947; in association with the names of other glaciologists grouped in this area, named after Prof. James Edward Church (1869-1959), of the Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Nevada; American glaciologist who developed techniques of snow surveying and melt-water run-off forecast (BA chart 3570, 27.vi.1952; APC, 1955, p.7; DCS 601 sheet 67 64, 1955). Cabo Church (Argentina. MM chart 110, 1957; Pierrou, 1970, p.290; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.76). Punta Zenteno, after Gen. José Ignacio Zenteno, Secretary for War to General B. O'Higgins in 1817 (Chile. DNH chart LIII, 1947).

Cape Church (USA) 67° 51' 00.0" S 65° 35' 00.0" W Cape
Name ID: 123566 Place ID: 2688

Rocky bluff which projects into the head of Seligman Inlet immediately N of Ahlmann Glacier, on the E coast of Graham Land. Photographed from the air in 1940 by the USAS. Charted in 1947 by the FIDS, who named it for Prof. James E. Church of the Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Nevada, who developed techniques of snow surveying and meltwater run-off forecasts now widely used.

Church, cabo (ARG) 67° 51' 00.0" S 65° 35' 00.0" W Cape
Name ID: 100505 Place ID: 2688

Church, Cabo (CHL) 67° 51' 00.0" S 65° 35' 00.0" W Cape
Name ID: 105330 Place ID: 2688

Fue aerofotografiado en 1940 por el Servicio Antártico de los EE.UU. y cartografíado algunos años después, en 1947, por una Expedición Británica, quienes le dieron el nombre por el Profesor James E. Church de la estación Experimental de Agricultura de la Universidad de Nevada, quien desarrolló técnicas para levantamientos en la nieve y pronóstico de escurrimiento de aguas de deshielo, ampliamente usados. Ese mismo año, 1947, en cartas publicadas por el Instituto Hidrográfico de la Armada de Chile figuró como punta Zenteno, por José Ignacio Zenteno, secretario de Guerra de O'Higgins, nombrado el 16 de febrero de 1817. Está situado sobre la costa W de ensenada Seligman, a unas 10 millas al SSW del cabo Choyce, costa E de península Tierra de O'Higgins.

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