Cape Herdman

	Cape Herdman
	Geographical location
Coordinates	72 ° 39 ′ S , 60 ° 32 ′ W Coordinates: 72 ° 39 ′ S , 60 ° 32 ′ W
location	Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula
coast	Black coast
Waters	Weddell Sea
Waters 2	Violante Inlet

The Cape Herdman is a large, icy cape on the Black Coast of Palmer Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It represents the southern boundary of the entrance to Violante Inlet .

Scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) photographed the Cape in 1940 from the air. Further aerial photographs were taken in 1947 during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948), which also carried out on-site geodetic surveys in collaboration with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the cape in 1953 after Henry Franceys Porter Herdman (1901-1967), a British oceanographer.

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