Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Fairweather, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Fairweather (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Cape (8)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Cape 705 m high, which is ice covered except for rocky exposures along its SE and E sides, lying midway between Drygalski Glacier and Evans Glacier on the E coast of Graham Land. Charted in 1947 by the FIDS, who named it for Alexander Fairweather, captain of the Dundee whaler Balaena which operated along the NE coast of Antarctic Peninsula in 1892-93.
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