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Rymill, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Rymill (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:
on W side of Stefansson Sound, Wilkins Coast, was photographed from the air by Wilkins, 20 December 1928 (Wilkins, 1929, Fig. 23, p.369) and by Ellsworth, 21 November 1935 (Ellsworth, 1936b, p.7); following comparison of Wilkins' and Ellsworth's photographs, roughly located by Joerg (1937, Fig. 12, p.439 and map facing p.444); rephotographed from the air and surveyed from the ground by USAS in 1940, and named after J.R. Rymill (Rymill Bay, q.v.) (USAAF chart [LR-74], 1942; USHO, 1943, p.273; Bertrand and others, 1948, Fig. 1, p.483; APC, 1955, p.18; DCS 601 sheet 69 62, 1955; USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979). Cabo Rymill (Argentina. IGM map, 1946; Pierrou, 1970, p.641; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.252). The cape was re-surveyed by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in November 1947. Kap Rymill (Kosack, 1955a, end map). Mys Raimill (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).
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