Cape Mabel
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 Map of Laurie Island with the Pirie Peninsula (top center), the northern end of which is Cape Mabel |
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| Coordinates | 60 ° 40 ′ S , 44 ° 41 ′ W | |
| location | Laurie Island ( South Orkney Islands ) | |
| Waters | Jessie Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Browns Bay | |
Cape Mabel is a cape on the north coast of Laurie Island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It is at the northern end of the Pirie Peninsula .
The first sighting of the cape probably took place on the third Antarctic voyage (1822-1824) of the British navigator and seal hunter James Weddell , who explored the north coast of Laurie Island in 1823. Participants in the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-1904) mapped it. Expedition leader William Speirs Bruce named the cape after Agnes Mabel Kerr, fiancee and later wife of James Hunter Harvey Pirie (1878-1965), surgeon and geologist on this expedition.
Web links
- Cape Mabel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Mabel on geographic.org (English)