Faraday, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Faraday (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 point of Powell Island, was charted by Powell and Palmer, 11 December 1821, and named presumably after M. Faraday (Faraday, q.v.) (Powell, 1822b, p.10; chart, 1822a; BA chart 1238, 7.ix.1839; 1775, 17.viii.1934; APC, 1955, p.10). Cap Faraday (Powell, 1824a, map facing p.5). Cap Farraday [sic] (Powell, 1824b, p.107). The cape was further charted by Weddell in January 1823 and called Brisbanes Bluff after Capt. M. Brisbane (Brisbane Heights, q.v.) (Weddell, 1825a, map facing p.25). Brisbanes Vorgebirge (Weddell, 1827, second end map). Cap Faradey [sic] (Vincendon-Dumoulin, atlas, 1847, Pl.43). Kap Faradey [sic] (Fricker, 1898, map p.119). Cabo Faraday (Riso Patron S., 1908, end map; Pierrou, 1970, p. 359). Kapp Faraday (Sørlle, chart, [1930]). The cape was recharted by DI in 1933. Cape Farraday [sic] (Hobbs, 1939a, p.29).
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