Spencer-Smith, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Spencer-Smith (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Cape (8)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
The northern cape of White Island, approximately 24km southeast of Scott Base at Pram Point, Ross Island.
Named by the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1958-59, for the Rev Arnold Patrick Spencer-Smith, BA of Queen's College Cambridge, England, padre with the Ross Sea Party of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-17, who died on 9 March 1916 on the return journey after laying the depots to Mount Hope for Shackleton's party. He had suffered from scurvy and had been carried for 40 days on a sledge by his companions prior to his death.
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