Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Wilkins, Cape (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cape Wilkins (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 rocky cape at the north-west tip of Fold Island, off the coast of Kemp Land. Discovered on 18 February 1931 by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson. Plotted by the William Scoresby Expedition (1936). Plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37).
Mawson named this feature Cape Hearst in gratitude for the purchase of the news rights of BANZARE by the Hearst Press. Later he agreed to change the name to Cape Wilkins.
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