Cape Darnley (Antarctica)
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 43 ′ S , 69 ° 30 ′ E | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| coast | Lars Christensen Coast | |
| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
Cape Darnley an icy cape on the Lars-Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Mac-Robertson-Land . It forms the northern end of the Bjerkø Peninsula on the west side of MacKenzie Bay .
The Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson sighted on December 26, 1929 during the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE, 1929–1931) from the top of the mast of the RSS Discovery a shadowy land mass, which the ship was on February 10, 1931 within clear range of vision approached. Mawson named the cape after Ernest Rowland Darnley (1875-1944), chairman of the Discovery Committee in the Colonial Office from 1923 to 1933.
Web links
- Cape Darnley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Darnley on geographic.org (English)