Circumcision, Port (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Circumcision, Port (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Anchorage
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
SE side of Petermann Island, Graham Coast, was charted by FAE, 1908-10, on 1 January 1909 (Feast of the Circumcision); named Port Circoncision (Charcot, 1910, map facing p.152; BA chart 3175, 9.x.1914; USBGN, 1956, p.85) and used as winter quarters, January-November 1909. Port Circumcision (Charcot, [1911b], p.67; BA, 1948, p.200-01; APC, 1955, p.7; USBGN, 1960, p.2). Puerto Circuncisión (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.289; Pierrou, 1970, p.248). "Refugio Groussac", named after Paul Groussac (1848-1902), French radical writer on Argentina, was established here by AAE, 8 February 1955 (Thomas, 1957a, p.523; Argentina. MM, 1957a, p.143; Pierrou, 1970, p.404). Caleta Circuncisión (Argentina. MM, 1959a, p.230). Puerto Circoncisión (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.77). "Refugio Naval Groussac" (Soviet Union. GUGK map 221, 1973).
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