Cape Kidson

	Cape Kidson
	Geographical location
Coordinates	73 ° 24 ′ S , 60 ° 49 ′ W Coordinates: 73 ° 24 ′ S , 60 ° 49 ′ W
location	Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula
coast	Lassiter coast
Waters	Weddell Sea
Waters 2	New Bedford Inlet
height	305 m

The Cape Kidson is a steeply sloping rock kliff of 305 m height at the Lassiter Coast of Palmer Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It limits the entrance to New Bedford Inlet to the north .

The first aerial photographs of the cape were taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948), which carried out a survey of the area in cooperation with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). The FIDS named the cape after the New Zealand meteorologist Edward Kidson (1882-1939), who conducted the meteorological reports of the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909) under the direction of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton and the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) by the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson .

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