Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Adams, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Adams (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Cape
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
S tip of Bowman Peninsula and E entrance point of Gardner Inlet, dividing Lassiter Coast from Orville Coast, was photographed from the air by RARE, 21 November 1947 (Ronne, 1948b, p.372 and photograph Fig. 22, p. 379 [wrongly captioned but showing Gardner Inlet with Cape Adams on the extreme right]); sighted from the ground but not precisely located by FIDS from Stonington Island in December 1947; named Cape Charles J. Adams, after Lieut. Charles J. Adams, USAAF, one of the RARE pilots, and shown in c. 75°03'S 61°50'W (AGS map, 1948). Cape Adams (Ronne, 1948b, p.390; APC, 1955, p.4; BA chart 3176, 30.xi.1956; USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981). Cabo Adams (Argentina. MM chart N- P -1, 1952; Chile, IHA, 1974, p.18). Cap Adams (France. SHM chart 5879, 1956). Mys Adams (Soviet Union. UNGSVF chart 334, 1958). Capo Smithy, in error (Smith Peninsula, q.v.) (Zavatti, 1958, Tav. 12-13). Capo Adams (Zavatti, 1960a, p.1420). The cape was photographed from the air by USN, 1965-67, and mapped from air photographs by USGS.
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