Herdman, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Herdman (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 Violante Inlet, Black Coast, was photographed from the air by USAS in 1940 and by RARE in 1947; surveyed by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in November 1947; called in error Cape Reynolds (Mount Reynolds, q.v.) (Ronne, 1948b, map p.357); in association with the names of Antarctic oceanographers grouped in this area, named Cape Herdman after Henry Francis Porter Herdman (1901-67), British oceanographer and member of the scientific staff of DI, 1924-49; Discovery, 1925-27, and Discovery II, 1929-31, 1933-35, 1937-39 and 1950-51; with the National Institute of Oceanography, 1949-67 (BA chart 3175, 12.xi.1954; APC, 1955, p.11; DCS 601 sheet 72 60, 1956; USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979). Cabo Herdman (Argentina. MM chart 121, 1957; Pierrou, 1970, p.421; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.151). Cabo Reynolds, as rejected name (Argentina. MM, 1957b, p.5). Mys Kherdmen (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).
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