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)
Filchner, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Filchner (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:
Ice-covered cape fronting on Davis Sea, 17 mi WNW of Adams Island. The cape is the division between Wilhelm II Coast and Queen Mary Coast. Discovered by the AAE, 1911-14, under Mawson, who named it for Wilhelm Filchner, leader of the German Antarctic Expedition of 1911-12.
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