Darlington, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Darlington (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 Hilton Inlet, Black Coast, was photographed from the air and roughly surveyed from the ground as an island in c. 71°55'S 60°40'W by USAS; named Darlington Island after Harry Darlington III, radio operator and dog driver of USAS "East Base" sledge party; Chief Pilot, RARE (USAAF chart [LR-74], 1942; USBGN, 1947, p.152). The name Howard Island, after A. Howard (Cape Howard, q.v.), was also applied to the same feature which, through a navigation error on the USAS flight, was wrongly located in c. 72°40'S 59°00'W (USBGN, 1947, p.181; [as rejected name] 1956, p.164). Isla Darlington (Argentina. IGM map, 1946). The feature was identified from the air as a cape and surveyed from the ground by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in November 1947. Cape Darlington (Rønne, 1948b, map p.357; Mason, 1950a, map facing p.151; BA chart 3175, 12.xi.1954; APC, 1955, p.8; DCS 601 sheet 72 60, 1956; USBGN, 1956, p.99; USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979). Darlington-Øya (Rønne, 1950b, p.132). Cabo Darlington (Argentina. MM chart N-"P"-1, 1952; Pierrou, 1970, p.294; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.92). Mys Darlington (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).
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