Little, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Little (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Cape
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
S entrance point of Wright Inlet, Lassiter Coast, was photographed from the air by USAS, 30 December 1940, but owing to a navigational error on the flight wrongly located in c. 74°40'S 60°30'W (USAAF chart [LR-74], 1942; USHO, 1943, p.277); further photographed from the air by RARE, 21 November 1947, and surveyed from the ground by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in December 1947; called Cape Easson after the Easson family of Nova Scotia (Kelsey Cliff, q.v.) (AGS map, 1948); later named Cape Little after Delbert Morse Little (b.1898), Assistant Chief for Operations, US Weather Bureau, who arranged the programme for sending weather reports from RARE and whose name was originally applied to a glacier at the head of Nantucket Inlet (Kelsey Cliff, q.v.) (Ronne, 1949, photograph p.204, map p.249; APC, 1955, p.14; BA chart 3176, 30.xi.1956; DCS 601 sheet W 74 60, 1957; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981). Cabo Little (Argentina. MM chart N-"P"-1, 1952; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.186). Mys Litle (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).
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