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Reclus Peninsula

Place ID: 11939
Name ID: 110816

Feature type: Peninsula

Origin

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:

• Reclus Peninsula (United States of America)
• Reclus, península (Argentina)

Narrative

N of a line joining Bancroft Bay and Giffard Cove, Charlotte Bay, Danco Coast, and terminating near Portal Point (q.v.), was sighted by BeAE on 28 January and roughly charted on 7 February 1898. The N extremity was named Cap Reclus after Jean-Jacques-Elisée Reclus (1830-1905), French geographer and Professor of Geography, Université Nouvelle, Brussels, 1894-1905; author of the introduction in Gerlache (1902b) (Lecointe, map, 1899; 1900a, map facing p.132). Cape Recluse [sic] (Cook, 1900, map p.xx; BA chart 3205, 1.vi.1901). Capo Reclus (Gerlache, 1902a). Kap Reclus (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904b, Vol. 2, first end map). Cabo Reclus (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904-05, Tomo 1, end map; Pierrou, 1970, p.617; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.239). Cape Rectus [sic] (Nordenskjöld and others, 1905, map facing p.316). Cabo Recto [sic] (Riso Patron S., 1908, end map). Kapp Reclus (HA chart, 1928). Cabo Redus [sic] (Argentina. IGM map, 1946). Cape Reclus (USAAF chart 1762, 1946; BA chart 3570, 4.vi.1954; APC, 1955, p.17). Following air photography by FIDASE, 1956-57, and survey from the ground by FIDS from "Portal Point", 1957-58, the name of Reclus was transferred from the cape to the peninsula. Reclus Peninsula (APC, 1960, p.7; BA chart 3566, 25.viii.1961).

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