Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Descent, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Descent (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Cape (8)
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
"Cape Descent forms a group of three hills, connected to the ice cap to the east and flanked there by moraine lines, and to the north faces a steep ice scour and narrow bay. Rock samples collected at the site in 1976 have been dated at over 3400 million years old. Named after the traverse in 1992 which ended in a steep ice descent from the north west facing flank of the Cape."
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