Cape King
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| Coordinates | 73 ° 35 ′ S , 166 ° 37 ′ E | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| coast | Borchgrevink coast | |
| Waters | Lady Newnes Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Wylde Glacier | |
Cape King is a cape on the Borchgrevink coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It represents the end of the rocky west face of the Wylde Glacier , where it flows into Lady Newnes Bay in the form of a floating glacier tongue .
The United States Geological Survey mapped the cape based on its own surveys and with the help of aerial photographs by the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after the New Zealander Geoffrey Alan Munro King (1928–1985), ionospheric physicist and geomagnetologist at Hallett Station in 1958.
Web links
- Cape King in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape King on geographic.org (English)