Cape Laird
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 Map of the southern section of the Shackleton Coast with Cape Laird (below the center of the map) |
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| Coordinates | 81 ° 41 ′ S , 162 ° 27 ′ E | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| coast | Shackleton coast | |
| Waters | Ross Ice Shelf | |
Cape Laird is a rocky cape on the Shackleton Coast of Antarctica's Ross Dependency . It protrudes 13 km northwest of Cape May into the Ross Ice Shelf .
Participants of a campaign carried out from 1960 to 1961 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named it after the New Zealand geologist Malcolm Gordon Laird (1935-2015), who had examined the hull area above the granite cliffs of the cape.
Web links
- Cape Laird in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Laird on geographic.org (English)