COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

NW extremity of Coppermine Peninsula, Robert Island, was roughly charted and named by the early sealers who used this steep-sided, flat-topped feature as a landmark for entering English Strait from the N (Fildes, 1821c); erroneously reported as on the W side of the strait (Fildes, 1829; BA, 1916, p.390); recharted by DI, 1934-35, when the name Cape Morris, after A. Morris (Morris Rock, q.v.), was applied to this feature (Nelson and others, chart 1935b; BA, 1942, p.42; chart 1774, 9.vii.1948; APC, 1955, p.15), and the name Fort William was applied to Spark Point (q.v.) on the W side of the strait. Cabo Morris (Argentina. MM chart 104, 1949; Pierrou, 1970, p.532; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.204). Cap Morris (France. SHM, 1954, p.45). Mys Morris (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Following re-interpretation of Fildes' sailing directions in conjunction with air photographs taken by FIDASE in 1956, the feature reverted to its original name (APC, 1962, p.13; BA chart 1774, 14.ix.1962).

A flat-topped headland (100 m) forming the western end of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands. Robert Fildes described Fort William in 1820-22 as being the eastern side of the entrance (to English Strait). His subsequent report (1829) described Fort William in detail, but erroneously placed it on the western side of the entrance (on Greenwich Island), a position which was adopted for a period following a survey by DI personnel in 1934-35. The UK-APC has re-interpreted all known versions of Fildes' sailing directions in conjunction with photographs and has concluded that the feature named Fort William by Fildes is the one here described; the Greenwich Island feature for which the name Fort William was erroneously applied is now named Canto Point (q.v.).

El nombre apareció aplicado por el personal de la Discovery II quienes cartografiaron este cabo en 1935. Promontorio de cima plana de 100 metros de altura que forma el extremo NW de isla Robert, en las islas Shetland del Sur.