Cloos, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Cloos (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:
N entrance point of Girard Bay and SE entrance point of Lemaire Channel, Graham Coast, was charted by BeAE on 12 February 1898 and named Cap Cloos after M. Cloos, sometime Honorary Belgian Consul in Denmark (Lecointe, map, 1899; 1900a, map facing p.132; [referring in error to Doumer Island] 1903, Pl. 29 following p.110). Cape Cloos (Cook, 1900, map p.xx; APC, 1955, p.7; DOS 610 sheet W 65 64, 1959; BA chart 3572, 12.viii.1960). Cabo Cloos (Argentina. MM chart 107, 1949; Pierrou, 1970, p.250; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.78). The cape was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956-57.
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