Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Schlossbach, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Schlossbach (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:
between Gardner Inlet and Hansen Inlet, Orville Coast, was seen from the air by RARE, 21 November 1947, and named after Cdr Isaac Schlossbach, USN (1891-1984), Second-in-command of RARE and in command of the expedition ship Port of Beaumont, 1947-48; member of US Antarctic Expedition, 1933-35 (R. E. Byrd), and of USAS, 1939-41, at "West Base", Bay of Whales, Ross Dependency ([in c. 75°09'S 62°54'W] Ronne, 1948b, map p.357 and p.379 [titles of Figs 20 and 22 transposed in error]; USHO chart 6638, 1955; [co-ordinates corrected] USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1975, p.5; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981). Schlossbachneset (Rønne, 1950b, p.135). Cabo Schlossbach (Argentina. MM chart N-"P"-1, 1952; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.254). Mys Shlosbakh (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The cape was photographed from the air by USN, 1965-67, and mapped from air photographs by USGS.
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