Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Freshfield, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Freshfield (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:
An ice-covered cape between Deakin Bay and Cook Ice Shelf. The coastline in this vicinity was first roughly charted by the USEE (1838-42) under Lt. Charles Wilkes, and for a period this cape was thought to be Wilkes' Cape Hudson (q.v.). The cape was mapped in 1912 by the Far Eastern Party of the AAE under Douglas Mawson, who named it for Douglas Freshfield, a long-time member of the Council of the Royal Geographical Society, and one time president of that organization.
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