Poynter Col

Poynter Col (63°49′S 59°7′W / 63.817°S 59.117°W / -63.817; -59.117Coordinates: 63°49′S 59°7′W / 63.817°S 59.117°W / -63.817; -59.117) is a snow-filled col, over 700 m high, joining Poynter Hill and Ivory Pinnacles in northern Graham Land, Antarctica. The col is 9 nautical miles (17 km) east-southeast of Cape Kjellman. It was charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) from Hope Bay in 1948. Poynter Col was named in 1953^[1] by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC), by association with Poynter Hill.

Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory ID: 110699^[1]
United States Gazetteer ID: 130323 ^[2]

This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Poynter Col" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

References

1 2 "Gazetteer: Poynter Col (UK)". Australian Antarctic Data Centre. Retrieved 2015-08-29.
↑ "Gazetteer: Poynter Col (US)". Australian Antarctic Data Centre. Retrieved 2015-08-29.

External links

Ivory Pinnacles and Poynter Col at Mapcarta — Interactive map

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