Cape Deacon

	Cape Deacon
	Geographical location
Coordinates	73 ° 15 ′ S , 59 ° 59 ′ W Coordinates: 73 ° 15 ′ S , 59 ° 59 ′ W
location	Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula
coast	Lassiter coast
Waters	Weddell Sea

Cape Deacon is an icy cape on the Lassiter Coast in the east of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It forms the southeastern tip of the Kemp Peninsula around 10 km northeast of Jeffries Bluff .

The cape was photographed during a flight over in December 1940 during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941). Further aerial photographs were taken in 1947 during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948), whose participants mapped it in collaboration with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1953 after the British oceanographer George Edward Raven Deacon (1906-1984), scientist of the Discovery Investigations from 1927 to 1939 and head of the National Institute of Oceanography from 1949 to 1971.

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