Cape Hordern
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 15 ′ S , 100 ° 31 ′ E | |
| location | Wilkesland , East Antarctica | |
| coast | Knox coast | |
| Waters | Mawson Lake | |
Cape Hordern is an ice-free, of moraine layered cape at the Knox Coast of the East Antarctic Wilke country . It is on the northwest end of the Bunger Hills .
Presumably it was discovered by the Australian geophysicist Alexander Lorimer Kennedy (1889-1972) and other members of the Western Base of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under Douglas Mawson from Watson Bluff . Kennedy mapped the western flank of the Cape as a small island north of Cape Hoadley . Mawson named the supposed island of Hordern Island after the Australian businessman Samuel Hordern (1876-1956), a sponsor of the research trip . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names made a comparison of the mapping carried out by Kennedy with its own map material, which was created in 1955 based on aerial photographs of Operation Highjump (1946-1947), a renaming in the current form.
Web links
- Cape Hordern in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Hordern on geographic.org (English)