Name details

Cape Close

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 254

Feature type: Cape

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A cape about 57 km west of Proclamation Island, Enderby Land. Discovered on 13 January, 1930, by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after Sir Charles Close, President of the Royal Geographical Society, 1927-30. NOTE (Mapping Officer 2011) The coast in this region is an ice coast and Cape Close is not an obvious feature on the satellite image.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
65° 57' 44.3" S
-65.96231°
Accurate to 300m
Longitude:
52° 21' 48.0" E
52.36333°
Accurate to 300m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Satellite Image
Source Name:
LIMA - Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
1:50000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
USGS - United States Geological Survey
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
Unknown

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