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Bruce, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Bruce (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Cape
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:
The northern tip of a small island separated from the mainland rocks just west of Taylor Glacier, Mac.Robertson Land, by a shallow channel. Discovered by BANZARE (1929-31) under Sir Douglas Mawson. A landing was made there on 18 February, 1931.
Named by Mawson after Rt. Hon. S M Bruce (later Lord Bruce), Prime Minister of Australia, 1923-29.
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