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View Point: Antarctica
SOURCE: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA
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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.


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