Campbell Head
| Campbell Head | ||
| Geographical location | ||
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 25 ′ S , 60 ° 40 ′ E | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| coast | Mawson Coast | |
| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Waters 2 | Oom Bay | |
The Campbell Head is a massive headland on the west side of Oom Bay at the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Lands .
Participants of the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered this formation in February 1931. Mawson named the cape after Stuart Alexander Caird Campbell (1903-1988) of the Royal Australian Air Force , Pilot on this research trip.
Web links
- Campbell Head in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Campbell Head on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ David Wilson Stuart Alexander Caird Campbell . In: Australian Dictionary of Biography (accessed September 30, 2016).