Cape Blake
| Cape Blake | ||
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 26 ′ S , 148 ° 55 ′ E | |
| location | East Antarctica | |
| coast | George V coast | |
| Waters | Somow lake | |
Cape Blake is a rocky cape on the East Antarctic George V coast . It belongs to the Organ Pipe Cliffs and is 6 km west of Cape Wild .
The cape was discovered during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . He named it after Leslie Russell Blake (1890-1918), who, as a geologist and cartographer, was part of the team working on Macquarie Island on this research trip.
Web links
- Cape Blake in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Blake on geographic.org (English)