Name details

Cape Hattersley-Smith

Hattersley-Smith, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Cape Hattersley-Smith  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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United States Gazetteer Id 126288

Feature type: Cape (8)

Origin

This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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Narrative

A cape marked by a triangular rock peak at the SE end of Condor Peninsula, 5 mi SW of Cape Knowles, on the Black Coast, Palmer Land. The cape was photographed from the air by the USAS on Dec. 30, 1940. It was surveyed by the FIDS-RARE party from Stonington Island in Nov. 1947 and was rephotographed by the U.S. Navy in 1966. Named by US-ACAN in 1984 after Geoffrey Francis Hattersley-Smith, with BAS from 1973 (Secretary, UK-APC, 1975-91); FIDS Base Leader and glaciologist, Admiralty Bay, 1948-49; with Defense Research Board, Canada, 1951-73 (field research in the Arctic); author of The History of Place-names in the Falkland Islands Dependencies (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands), Cambridge, 1980, and The History of Place-names in the British Antarctic Territory, Cambridge, 1991.

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Location

Latitude:
71° 51' 00.0" S
-71.85000°
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Longitude:
61° 04' 00.0" W
-61.06667°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Map

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Remote sensing:
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