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Junction Corner

mainland meeting point on Shackleton Ice Shelf

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 8, 2024
Entity authorityQ6311724 ↗
Source-derived summary

Junction Corner (66°30′S 94°41′E) is the junction point of the mainland with the west side of Shackleton Ice Shelf. It was discovered and named by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–14, under Mawson.

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This article incorporates public domain material from "Junction Corner". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

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“Junction Corner” enters the record as mainland meeting point on Shackleton Ice Shelf. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Junction, Corner and mainland can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1911—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Junction, Corner and mainland.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 8, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q6311724. Authority coordinates are -66.500, 94.683. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1911.

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This entry incorporates text from “Junction Corner” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.