Drake Head
| Drake Head | ||
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 13 ′ S , 158 ° 15 ′ E | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| coast | Oates coast | |
| Waters | Somow lake | |
| Waters 2 | Davies Bay | |
The Drake Head is a headland on the Oates Coast in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It marks the west side of the entrance to Davies Bay .
She was discovered in February 1911 by Lieutenant Harry Lewin Lee Pennell (1882-1916), a crew member of the Terra Nova during the Antarctic expedition of the same name (1910-1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . It is named after Francis Randall Hugo Drake (1878–1936), meteorologist on board the Terra Nova during this research trip .
Web links
- Drake Head in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Drake Head on geographic.org (English)