Name details

Cape Wilkins

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 294

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 rocky cape at the north-west tip of Fold Island, off the coast of Kemp Land. Discovered on 18 February 1931 by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson. Plotted by the William Scoresby Expedition (1936). Plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37).

Named For

Mawson named this feature Cape Hearst in gratitude for the purchase of the news rights of BANZARE by the Hearst Press. Later he agreed to change the name to Cape Wilkins.

Location

Latitude:
67° 14' 51.7" S
-67.24770°
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Longitude:
59° 19' 35.4" E
59.32650°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

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

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
28-Nov-1955

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