Name details

Cape Monaco

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

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

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 110200

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

NW entrance point of Wylie Bay, Anvers Island, was roughly charted by GAE, 1873-74 (Stieler, 1875, map 11); further charted by FAE, 1903-05, and named Cap Albert de Monaco after HSH Prince Albert I of Monaco (1848-1922), a patron of the expedition and of FAE, 1908-10, who supported the oceanographic programmes; Founder of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco (1910) and of the Oceanographic Institute, Paris (1911) (Charcot, 1906b, p.15; 1906a, map facing p.316). Pointe Monaco (Charcot, 1906b, p.471). Cap A. de Monaco (Gourdon, 1908, p.14). Cape Albert de Monaco (BA chart 1238, ix.1908; 1948, view facing p.188). Kapp Albert de Monaco (HA chart, 1927). Cape A. de Monaco, Point Monaco (Holtedahl, 1929, p.15, 26). Cabo Alberto de Monaco (Chile. DNH chart LI, 1947; IHA, 1974, p.21). Cape Monaco (BA chart 3570, 27.vi, 1952; APC, 1955, p.15; BA chart 3570, 29.ix.1961). Cabo Mónaco (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.267; Pierrou, 1970, p.526). Cap Monaco (France. SHM, 1954, p.48). Cabo Alberto Monaco (Kosack, 1955b, map facing p.88). The cape was photographed from the air by FIDASE and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Arthur Harbour", 1956-57. Mys Monako (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Punta Alberto de Monaco (Chile. DNH chart 1500, 1963). Punta Monaco (Alarcón and others, 1976, p.24).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
64° 43' 00.0" S
-64.71667°
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Longitude:
64° 17' 00.0" W
-64.28333°
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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:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
28-Jan-1953

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