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)
Westbrook, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Westbrook (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:
Snow-covered cape forming the SW extremity of Alexander Island. Mapped by USGS from aerial photographs taken by RARE, 1947, U.S. Navy, 1967-68, and from U.S. Landsat imagery taken 1972-73. Named by US-ACAN for Capt. Darrel E. Westbrook, Jr., USN, Commander, U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica, from June 1978 to June 1980.
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