Calmette, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Calmette (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:
SW entrance point of Calmette Bay, Marguerite Bay, Fallières Coast, was roughly mapped as an island by FAE, 1908-10, in January 1909 and named Île Calmette after Gaston Calmette (1858-1914), editor of Le Figaro, Paris, who presented the expedition with copies of his newspaper for the two years preceding the expedition (Charcot, 1912, Pl. 1). Calmette Island (BA chart 3175, 9.x.1914). Calmette Öya (HA chart, 1927). The feature was re-mapped by BGLE and named Cape Calmette (Rymill, 1938a, map facing p.432; APC, 1955, p.6; DCS 601 sheet 68 66, 1955). Cabo Calmette (Chile. DNH chart LIII, 1947; Pierrou, 1970, p.242; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.64). Kaap Calmette (Knapp, 1958, p.570).
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