Feature Name (see definition): Vesconte Point

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 15982

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 68° 31' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 065° 12' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -68.5166667

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -65.2

Elevation (see definition): No data

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1962

Description (see definition): A steep rock point on the S side of Bermel Peninsula (q.v.), Bowman Coast, marking the extremity of a spur running SE from the easternmost of the Bowditch Crests. The point was first roughly mapped by W.L.G. Joerg from air photos taken by Lincoln Ellsworth on Nov. 23, 1935; surveyed by Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), Dec. 1958. In association with the names of pioneers of navigation grouped in this area, it was named by UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) after Petrus Vesconte of Genoa, the earliest known chartmaker whose charts survive (the first dated 1311).

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data