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)
Pigeon Rocks, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Pigeon Rocks (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Rock
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Twin rocky promontories on the western side of Watt Bay on the coast of George V Land. Discovered in 1912 by A A E under Sir Douglas Mawson who named it because of the large Cape pigeon colony there.
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