Name details

Cape Wheeler

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

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

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 111906

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 entrance point of Wright Inlet, Lassiter Coast, was photographed from the air by USAS, 30 December 1940, but owing to an error in navigation on the flight was wrongly located in c.74°40'S 60°30'W (USAAF chart [LR-74], 1942; USHO, 1943, second photograph p.276); further photographed from the air by RARE, 21 November 1947 (Ronne, 1948b, Fig. 17, p.373), mapped in c.73°59'S 60°55'W, and named Cape John Wheeler after John Neville Wheeler (1886-1973), President, Incorporated North American Newspaper Alliance, 1931-64, and a contributor to RARE (AGS, 1948, map) or Cape Wheeler (Ronne, 1948b, map p.357; [in 73°58'S 61°05'W] BA chart 3175, 12.xi.1954; APC, 1955, p.22; DOS 601 sheet W 7360, 1957; [co-ordinates corrected] USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1977, p.35). Cabo Wheeler (Argentina. MM chart N-"P"-1, 1952; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.301). The cape was surveyed from the ground by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in December 1947. Kap Wheeler (Kosack, 1955a, end map). Mys Uiler (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
73° 58' 00.0" S
-73.96667°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
60° 58' 00.0" W
-60.96667°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

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

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
28-Jan-1953

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