Cape Kemp
| Cape Kemp | ||
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 52 ′ S , 63 ° 38 ′ W | |
| location | Doumer Island , Palmer Archipelago , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Waters | Bismarck Street | |
| Waters 2 | Neumayer Canal and South Bay | |
Cape Kemp is the southwestern extension of Doumer Island in the West Antarctic Palmer Archipelago . To the east, the cape marks the southern entrance from the Bismarck Strait into the Neumayer Canal and the north-western boundary of the entrance to South Bay .
Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903–1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped them for the first time. In the course of surveys of numerous islands in the Palmer Archipelago carried out by the British Discovery Investigations in 1927, this cape was named. It is named after the British marine biologist and oceanographer Stanley Wells Kemp (1882–1945), chief scientist of the British Discovery Investigations from 1924 to 1936.
Web links
- Cape Kemp in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Kemp on geographic.org (English)