Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Dalton, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Dalton (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:
A cape on the western side of Edward VIII Gulf. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Skutenes (Barge Point). First visited by an ANARE sledging party led by R Dovers in 1954.
Renamed by ANARE after R F M Dalton, Officer-in-charge, ANARE Macquarie Island in 1953.
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