Kidson, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Kidson (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Cape (8)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
An abrupt rock scarp which rises to 300 m, forming the N side of the entrance to New Bedford Inlet, on the E coast of Palmer Land. First sighted and photographed from the air by members of the USAS in 1940. During 1947 the cape was photographed from the air by the RARE, who in conjunction with the FIDS charted it from the ground. Named by the FIDS for Edward Kidson, New Zealand meteorologist and author of the meteorological reports of the BrAE under Shackleton, 1907-09, and the AAE under Mawson, 1911-14.
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