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)
Torson, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Torson (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:
A point at the E side of Posadowsky Bay on the coast of Antarctica. First mapped from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump, 1946-47. Remapped by the Soviet expedition 1956, who named it after Lt. K.P. Torson, of the ship Vostok in the Bellingshausen expedition 1819-21.
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