Name details

Cape Green

Green, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Cape Green  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 109108

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 Tabarin Peninsula, Trinity Peninsula, was roughly mapped by SwAE in January 1902; surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in March 1946 and named after Michael Campbell Green (1926-48), FIDS geologist, "Hope Bay", 1948, who with O.R. Burd (Cape Burd, q.v.) lost his life in a fire at the station, 8 November 1948 (Fuchs, 1951b, p.15) (APC, 1955, p.11; BA chart 3205, 15.iii.1957; BAS 250 sheet SP 21-22/14 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1973).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
63° 39' 00.0" S
-63.65000°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
56° 49' 00.0" W
-56.81667°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

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

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
22-Jan-1951

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