Cape Byrd
| Cape Byrd | ||
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 54 ′ S , 75 ° 46 ′ W | |
| location | Charcot Island , West Antarctica | |
| Waters | Bellingshausen lake | |
Cape Byrd is a low and icy cape that forms the northwestern extension of Charcot Island, west of Alexander I Island and the Antarctic Peninsula .
The Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins discovered and roughly mapped it during his Antarctic flight on December 29, 1929. Wilkins named it after the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888–1957). Aerial photographs of the US American Operation Highjump (1946–1947) from 1947 were used by the British geographer Derek Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960 for a new mapping.
Web links
- Cape Byrd in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Byrd on geographic.org (English)