Deacon, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Deacon (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:
SE point of Kemp Peninsula, Lassiter Coast, was probably seen from the air by USAS in December 1940; surveyed from the ground by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in November 1947; named after Dr George Edward Raven (later Sir George) Deacon (1906-84), English oceanographer; member of DI scientific staff 1927-39; William Scoresby, 1927-28; "Marine Station", Grytviken, 1928-29; Discovery II, 1930-31, 1931-33, 1933-37; Director, National Institute of Oceanography (now National Institute of Oceanographic Sciences), 1949-71 ([in 73°17'S 59°53'W] BA chart 3175, 12.xi.1954; APC, 1955, p.8; [co-ordinates corrected] USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1986, p.3). Cabo Deacon (Argentine. MM chart 121, 1957). Mys Dikon (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Punta Albornoz, presumably referring to this feature, after a sergeant in the Argentine Air Force (Argentina. MD, 1978, letter A). The cape was photographed from the air by USN, 1965-67.
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