Cape Hattersley-Smith

	Cape Hattersley-Smith
	Geographical location
Coordinates	71 ° 51 ′ S , 61 ° 2 ′ W Coordinates: 71 ° 51 ′ S , 61 ° 2 ′ W
location	Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula
coast	Black coast
Waters	Hilton Inlet

Cape Hattersley-Smith is a cape dominated by a three-sided rock summit on the Black Coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . At the southeast end of the Condor Peninsula , it is 8 km southwest of Cape Knowles .

Participants of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) photographed it from the air on December 30, 1940. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveys in November 1947 together with scientists from the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1984 after the British geologist and glaciologist Geoffrey Francis Hattersley-Smith (1923-2012), who was a member of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee from 1975 to 1991 .

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