There appears to be some doubt in the current literature over whether the height of Swirl How is 802 or 804 m, following resurveying.

He argued instead that the adjustment, based on a resurveying of 165,000 households in the country, was prone to more errors than the census figures themselves.

A huge resurveying would now take place as part of the dividing of the public lands into ten-iugera plots, and discrepancies would automatically be rectified.

The United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) name arose from the excellent sledging conditions experienced during the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) resurveying of the area of 1952, which gave to the work a picnic-like atmosphere.