Cape Garry
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| Coordinates | 63 ° 22 ′ S , 62 ° 15 ′ W | |
| location | Low Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
Cape Garry is the cape that forms the southwestern extension of Low Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands .
The British navigator Henry Foster mapped and named the cape during his Antarctic voyage with the HMS Chanticleer , which lasted from 1828 to 1831 . Namesake is Nicholas Garry (1782-1856), deputy governor of the Hudson's Bay Company . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey 1959 carried out a more precise mapping using aerial photographs of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1955–1957).
Web links
- Cape Garry in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Garry on geographic.org (English)