Name details

Cape Roux

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

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

If this information is incorrect, please e-mail mapping@aad.gov.au

Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 110960

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

N point of Brabant Island, was charted by FAE, 1903-05, and named Cap E. Roux after Pierre-Paul-Émile Roux (1853-1933), French physician and bacteriologist, and an associate of L. Pasteur (Pasteur Peninsula, q.v.); he was at the time Director, Institut Pasteur, Paris, and a member of the commission appointed to publish the scientific results of FAE, 1903-05, who also signed the instructions for FAE, 1908-10, and was a member of the Comité de Patronage of that expedition (Charcot, 1906a, map facing p.316). Pointe E. Roux (Charcot, 1906b, p.470). Cape E. Roux (BA chart 3205, vii.1909; 2.ix.1938). Cap Roux (Charcot, 1912, Pl.11). Kapp E. Roux (HA chart, 1928). Cape Roux (Wilkins, 1929, map facing p.374; BA, 1948, p.189; [in 63°59'S 62°30'W] chart 3205, 23.ix.1949; [in 64°01'S 62°36'W] APC, 1955, p.18; [co-ordinates corrected] BA chart 3560, 7.iv.1961; APC, 1977, p.28). Cabo Roux (Chile. DNH chart LI, 1947; Pierrou, 1970, p.638; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.250). The cape was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
64° 01' 00.0" S
-64.01667°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
62° 28' 00.0" W
-62.46667°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

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

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
8-Sep-1953

Display Scales

Note These display scales were chosen for use by Australia, with an emphasis on East Antarctica.
          For example, selecting 'Aus_display_scale_20M' would only return names that would appear on a 1:20 million scale map.

Aus_display_scale_20M: No      Aus_display_scale_10M: No     
Aus_display_scale_5M: No      Aus_display_scale_2M: No     
Aus_display_scale_1M: No      Aus_display_scale_500k: No     
Aus_display_scale_250k: No      Aus_display_scale_100k: No     
Aus_display_scale_50k: No      Aus_display_scale_25k: No     
Aus_display_scale_10k: No      Aus_display_scale_5k: No     
Aus_display_scale_1k: No     


Related information

Biodiversity
View fauna, flora or both within 1.0 degree of this location

Place names
View British or international place names within 1.0 degree of this location.