Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Freshfield, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Freshfield (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:
An ice-covered cape on the coast of George V Land between Cook Ice Shelf and Deakin Bay. Discovered by A A E (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after Douglas Freshfield, one-time President of the Royal Geological Society. In 1912 Cape Freshfield was the northernmost point of a prominent peninsula; in 1958 ANARE under Phillip Law found the point of Cape Freshfield to have broken away.
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