Cape Calmette
| Cape Calmette | ||
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 4 ′ S , 67 ° 14 ′ W | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| coast | Fallières coast | |
| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Calmette Bay | |
The Cape Calmette is a chapter on the Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It forms the western end of a 5 km long and up to 625 m high peninsula , which in turn borders Calmette Bay to the south.
It was discovered in 1909 during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Charcot , who mistakenly thought it was an island and named it Île Calmette . It is named after the French journalist Gaston Calmette (1858-1914), editor of the Le Figaro newspaper , in which Calmette had advertised the expedition for two years. Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937), led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill, revealed the true nature of the formation and adapted Charcot's name to it.
Web links
- Cape Calmette in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Calmette on geographic.org (English)