Cape Dovers
| Cape Dovers | ||
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 29 ′ S , 97 ° 8 ′ E | |
| location | Queen Marie Land , East Antarctica | |
| Waters | Mawson Lake | |
The Cape Dover is a cape in front of the coast of the East Antarctic Queen Marie-country . It is located about five miles south of Henderson Island on the Shackleton Ice Shelf front .
It was discovered by the team of the west base of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . Mawson named it after his cartographer George Harris Serjeant Dovers (1887–1971).
Web links
- Cape Dovers in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Dovers on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ George Harris Serjeant Dovers. Information on coolantarctica.com (accessed January 26, 2016).