Cape Borley
| Cape Borley | ||
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 56 ′ S , 55 ° 10 ′ E | |
| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
The Cape Borley is an icy cape , which only slightly on the coast of the East Antarctic Enderbylands in the Kooperationssee projects. It is located halfway between Cape Batterbee and Magnet Bay .
It was discovered in 1930 during the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . This named the cape after the British oceanographer John Oliver Borley (1872-1938), who belonged to the committee of the British Discovery Investigations and had helped Mawson to use the RRS Discovery for his expedition.
Web links
- Cape Borley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Borley on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ HG Maurice, John Oliver Borley. 1872-1938 , ICES J. Mar. Sci. 14 (1939) 14, pp. 5-6. doi : 10.1093 / icesjms / 14.1.5