Name details

Cape Ann

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 289

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 on the Enderby Land coast, 6 km north of Mt. Biscoe. First applied by John Biscoe in March, 1831, to 'A bluff point in the south-east which has every appearance of a cape'. Sir Douglas Mawson described Cape Ann as a point on the coast near where the rocky peak of Mt. Biscoe rises. Aerial photography by ANARE in 1956-58 showed that there is no marked point on the coast near Mt. Biscoe so the name has been applied to the feature to the north. Probably named after Biscoe's mother.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
66° 09' 45.9" S
-66.16275°
Accurate to 200m
Longitude:
51° 22' 56.3" E
51.38231°
Accurate to 200m
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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