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Marchesi, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Marchesi (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: None recorded.
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Cape at NE extremity of Smyley Island, at eastern end of Trathan Coast. Named after Capt. Victor Aloysius John Baptist Marchesi RN (1914-2006), Master of the William Scoresby (1943-47) from which the first three British bases were established in the Antarctic at Deception Island, Port Lockroy and Hope Bay, 1944-45 (APC 2010).
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