COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

NW point of Whittle Peninsula, Davis Coast. The coast in this vicinity was roughly sketched in January 1829 by Foster, who used this name probably to refer to the present feature, after Capt. Henry Kater (1777-1835), English mathematician and physicist, who made important experiments with pendulums and telescopes and who was a member of the Committee for Foster's expedition (Foster and Kendall, chart, 1829a; [definitely referring to this cape] BA chart 1238, iii.1901; 3205, 2.ix.1938; APC, 1955, p.13; BAS 250 sheet SP 21-22/13, 1-DOS 1974). The cape was surveyed by SwAE in December 1902 and called Cape Gunnar after Dr J.G. Andersson (Andersson Island, q.v.) (Andersson, 1904c, p.216; Nordenskjöld and others, 1905, map facing p.316). Kap Gunnar (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904b, Vol. 2, first end map). Cap Gunnar Andersson (Nordenskjöld and others, [1904c], map p.232-33). Cabo Gumar [sic] (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904-05, Tomo 1, end map). Cabo Gunnar (Riso Patron S., 1908, end map). Cap Gunnar, Cap Kater (Charcot, 1912, Pl.1 and 11). Gvas Point, after the steam whaling ship Gvas (Charcot Bay, q.v.) (Johannessen, chart, [1919-20]). Kapp Kater (HA chart, 1928). Cabo Kater (Argentina. IGM map, 1946; Pierrou, 1970, p.456; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.169). The cape was further surveyed from a distance by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in November 1948. Cabo Katter [sic] (Gándara Bofil, 1953, p.343). The cape was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Hope Bay", 1959-60. Mys Keyter (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl. 24).

Cape fringed by rocks, marking the W side of the entrance to Charcot Bay on the W coast of Graham Land. This coast was sketched by a British expedition 1828-31, under Foster, who named a cape in this region after Capt. Henry Kater, a member of the committee which planned the expedition. This region was more fully mapped by the SwedAE, 1901-04, under Nordenskjold, who gave the name Cape Gunnar to this cape. The name Kater perpetuates the earlier naming.

Denominado por la Expedición Británica de los años 1828-1831, bajo la dirección del capitán Henry Foster, en honor del capitán Henry Kater, miembro del Comité que planeó la expedición. Esta región fue completamente llevada a un plano por la Expedición Sueca de 1901-1904, al mando de Otto Nordenskjöld, quien le dio el nombre de cabo Gunnar, en conmemoración de Gunnar Andersson, segundo comandante de la expedición. El nombre Kater se perpetuó por su antigüedad. Cabo orlado por rocas, constituye el límite W de la entrada a bahía Charcot, en la costa W de Tierra de O'Higgins.