Musselman, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Musselman (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:
SW entrance point of Palmer Inlet, Black Coast, was photographed from the air and surveyed from the ground by USAS in December 1940, and named after Lytton C. Musselman, a member of the expedition's "East Base" party which sledged across Dyer Plateau to the vicinity of Mount Jackson ([in 71°17'S 61°10'W] USHO, 1943, photograph p.274; USBGN, 1947, p.204; [referring in error to Cape Healey (q.v.)] USHO chart 5411, 1946; [co-ordinates corrected] APC, 1955, p.15; DCS 601 sheet 71 60, 1955; BAS 250 sheet SR 19-20/16, 1-DOS 1976). The cape was resurveyed by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in November 1947. Cabo Musselman (Argentina. MM chart 110, 1949; Pierrou, 1970, p.537; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.206). Cabo Healey, in error (Argentina. MM chart N-"P"-1, 1952). Mys Masselmen (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl.24).
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