This page presents the geographical name data for
View 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):
View Point
Feature Class
(see definition):
Summit
Country Code
(see definition): AQ (Antarctica)
Feature ID
(see definition):
16055
Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds
(see definition):
63° 33' 00" S
Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds
(see definition):
057° 22' 00" W
Primary Latitude in decimal degrees
(see definition):
-63.55
Primary Longitude in decimal degrees
(see definition):
-57.3666667
Elevation
(see definition):
150
Decision Year
(see definition):
01/01/1952
Description
(see definition):
Eastern tip of a promontory, 150 m, forming the W side of the entrance to Duse Bay on the S coast of Trinity Peninsula. Discovered by a party under J. Gunnar Andersson of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE), 1901-04. So named by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) following their survey of the area in 1945 because from this promontory, good panoramic photographs were obtained.
Date Created
(see definition):
No data
Date Edited
(see definition):
No data
NOTE: The information regarding
View 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
View Point information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about
View Point should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.