Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Washington, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Washington (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Cape (8)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A bold truncated headland 300m high with vertical sides forming the tip of the long peninsula which separates Wood Bay and Terra Nova Bay, and forming the southern point of Wood Bay, in Victoria Land. Discovered and named on 18 February 1841 by Ross for Captain Washington, RN, who was Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society from 1836 to 1840. Washington took an active part in agitating for an expedition to the Antarctic, and he stressed the suitability of Captain James Clark Ross for the leadership of such an expedition.
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