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Bone Point: Antarctica
SOURCE: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA
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This page presents the geographical name data for Bone 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): Bone Point

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 1635

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 66° 25' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 110° 40' 00" E

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -66.4166667

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): 110.6666667

Elevation (see definition): No data

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1963

Description (see definition): Rock point forming the SE extremity of Herring Island, in the Windmill Islands. First mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy (USN) Op Hjp and OpWml in 1947 and 1948. Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Steven D. Bone, meteorologist and member of the Wilkes Station party of 1962.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data

NOTE: The information regarding Bone 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 Bone Point information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Bone Point should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.


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