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)
SCAR Gazetteer Information: Each place can have one or more entries in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer, dependant on its origin. By viewing an individual entry, you may see multiple references to the same place. SCAR uses a more general feature type coding, so each place will, in general, have multiple feature types.
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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Cape Wilkins (AUS) | 67° 14' 51.7" S | 59° 19' 35.4" E | Cape |
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Name ID: 294
Place ID: 16063
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). |
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| Cape Wilkins (USA) | 67° 15' 00.0" S | 59° 18' 00.0" E | Cape |
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Name ID: 133714
Place ID: 16063
A rocky cape at the N tip of Fold Island, forming the E side of the entrance to Stefansson Bay. Discovered on Feb. 18, 1931, by the BANZARE under Mawson. Mapped in February 1936 by DI personnel on the William Scoresby. It was remapped in greater detail from air photos 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, the name used by subsequent expeditions. |
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