Cape Brown
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Cape Brown Cabo Nicolás |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 17 ′ S , 69 ° 45 ′ W | |
| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Waters | Schokalski Bay ( Marguerite Bay ) | |
| Waters 2 | George VI Sound | |
The Cape Brown ( Argentina Cabo Nicolás called) is a striking, icy cape that about 9 km north-northeast of the summit of Mount Nicholas is and the entrance to Schokalskibucht on the northeast coast of Alexander Island east limited.
The first sighting of the cape dates back to 1909 by participants in the fourth French Antarctic expedition from 1908 to 1910 under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Charcot , who, however, incorrectly identified the cape as an island. The first aerial photographs, which were later used for rough mapping, were taken in 1937 during the British Graham Land Expedition under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . The British geodesist Colin Chambers Brown (1926-1997), after whom the cape is named, surveyed the cape in 1948 for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey .
Web links
- Cape Brown in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Brown on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nicolás, cabo at the Australian Antarctic Data Center, accessed on January 5, 2017