Name details

Cape Deacon

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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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 108453

Feature type: Cape

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:

Narrative

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.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
73° 14' 00.0" S
-73.23333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
59° 50' 00.0" W
-59.83333°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
28-Jan-1953

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