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Winship Point

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 5, 2023
Entity authorityQ581409 ↗
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Winship Point (62°14′32″S 58°43′43″W) is a point at the west side of the entrance to Potter Cove, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Jonathan Winship, master of the ship O'Cain in 1820–21, operating from Potter Cove.

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

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1960, 1820—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Winship, Point and Open-knowledge providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Winship Point” 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.