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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Cape Willems (GBR) | 64° 57' 00.0" S | 63° 16' 00.0" W | Cape |
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Name ID: 111952
Place ID: 16067
NE entrance point of Flandres Bay (q.v.), Danco Coast, was charted by BeAE in February 1898 and named Cap Willems after Pierre Willems, who assisted the expedition (Lecointe, map, 1899). Cap Pierre Willems (Lecointe, 1900a, map facing p.132). Cape Willems (Cook, 1900, map p.xx; BA chart 1238, ix. 1908; 3205, 25.iii.1937; [in 64°56'S 63°13'W] APC, 1955, p.22: [co-ordinates corrected] BA chart 3566, 16.x.1959; APC, 1986, p.4). Kap Willems (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904b, Vol. 2, first end map). Cabo Willem [sic] (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904-05, Tomo 1, end map). Cap P. Willems (Charcot, 1906a, map facing p.316). Cabo Guillermo [=cape William] (Riso Patron S., 1908, end map). Pointe P. Willems (Matha and Rey, 1911, p.62). Kapp Willems (HA chart, 1928). Cape Pierre Willems, as rejected form (USBGN, 1947, p.250). Cabo Willems (DNH chart LI, 1947; Pierrou, 1970, p.728; Chile. IHA, 1974. p.302). The cape was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57. Mys Villems (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). |
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| Cape Willems (USA) | 64° 57' 00.0" S | 63° 16' 00.0" W | Cape |
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Name ID: 133717
Place ID: 16067
Cape forming the N side of the entrance to Flandres Bay on the W coast of Graham Land. First charted by the BelgAE, 1897-99, and named by Gerlache for Pierre Willems. |
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| Willems Pierre, Cap (BEL) | 64° 57' 00.0" S | 63° 16' 00.0" W | Cape |
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Name ID: 104999
Place ID: 16067
Pierre Willems fut un propagandiste actif du Comité de Gand. |
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| Willems, cabo (ARG) | 64° 57' 00.0" S | 63° 17' 00.0" W | Cape |
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| Willems, Cabo (CHL) | 64° 57' 00.0" S | 63° 15' 00.0" W | Cape |
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Name ID: 106485
Place ID: 16067
Fue cartografiado primero por la Expedición Belga de los años 1897-1899, al mando del teniente Adrien de Gerlache, quien lo denominó de esta forma por el Sr. Pierre Willems. Cabo que forma el lado N de la entrada bahía Flandres en la costa W de la península Tierra de O'Higgins. |
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