Cape Hickey
| Cape Hickey | ||
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 5 ' S , 162 ° 38' E | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| coast | Scott coast | |
| Waters | Ross Sea | |
| Waters 2 | Mawson Glacier | |
Cape Hickey is a cape on the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . To the east of Charcot Cove and the Marin Glacier, it marks the northern end of the mouth of the Mawson Glacier into the Ross Sea .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1964 after John Hickey of the United States Navy , who was involved in the so-called Topo-North-and-South land survey work in 1962 as a pilot of the VX-6 flight squadron.
Web links
- Cape Hickey in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Hickey on geographic.org