Walcott, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Walcott (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 Casey Inlet, Wilkins Coast, was photographed from the air by Wilkins, 20 December 1928, and named after Frederic Collin Walcott (1869-1949), US Senator and a member of Council of the AGS ([in c.70°05'S 64°20'W] Wilkins, 1929, p.367, Fig.30, p.368 and map facing p.374; BA chart 3175, 7.vii.1933; [first shown in correct relative position] Joerg, 1937, map facing p.444; [in 69°02'S 63°15'W] USBGN, 1947, p.246; [co-ordinates corrected] APC, 1955, p.22; DCS 601 sheet 69 62, 1955; DOS 610 sheet W 69 62, 1963); surveyed from the ground by USAS in 1940 and resurveyed by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in November 1947. Cabo Walcott (Chile. DNH chart I, 1947; Pierrou, 1970, p.722; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.297). Mys Uolkott (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).
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