Feature Name (see definition): Platt Point

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 11869

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 68° 36' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 064° 14' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -68.6

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -64.2333333

Elevation (see definition): No data

Decision Year (see definition): No data

Description (see definition): The E entrance point to Bowman Inlet on the E coast of Antarctic Peninsula. The feature marks the extremity of an ice-covered, though clearly outlined, spur that juts N from the W part of Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula. The margins of the feature were photographed from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth, 1935, but it was more clearly defined by aerial photographs taken by the U.S. Antarctic Service (USAS), 1940. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1977 for William D. Platt, U.S. Navy (USN), hospital corpsman, Palmer Station, winter party 1968.

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