Driscoll Point
Driscoll Point is a point forming the east side of the entrance to Wise Bay, overlooking the Ross Ice Shelf. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after C.Driscoll Point
- Type: Cape
- Description: headland in Antarctica
- Categories: headland and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-82.98333° or 82° 59′ south
Longitude
168° east
Elevation
62 metres (203 feet)
Named after
C.E. Driscoll
Open location code
2V9C2282+M2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Driscoll Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Driscoll Point”
- Chinese: “德里斯科爾角”
- German: “Driscoll Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Driscoll Point”
- Swedish: “Driscoll Point”
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