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Lagrelius Point: Antarctica
SOURCE: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA
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This page presents the geographical name data for Lagrelius Point in Antarctica, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division

Feature Name (see definition): Lagrelius Point

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 8384

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 63° 55' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 058° 17' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -63.9166667

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -58.2833333

Elevation (see definition): No data

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1956

Description (see definition): Low, ice-free point on the NW side of James Ross Island, 1.5 mi S of Carlson Island. Discovered and first surveyed in 1903 by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE) under Nordenskjold, who named it Cape Lagrelius after Axel Lagrelius of Stockholm, who contributed toward the cost of the expedition. It was resurveyed by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1952. Point is considered a more suitable descriptive term for this feature than cape.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data

NOTE: The information regarding Lagrelius Point in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Lagrelius Point information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Lagrelius Point should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.


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