Cape Mawson
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 10 ′ S , 74 ° 43 ′ W | |
| location | Charcot Island , West Antarctica | |
| Waters | Attenborough Strait | |
| Waters 2 | Wilkins Sound | |
Cape Mawson is a low and icy cape that forms the southeastern extension of Charcot Island west of Alexander I Island and the Antarctic Peninsula .
The Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins discovered and roughly mapped it during his Antarctic flight on December 29, 1929. Wilkins named it after the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson (1882-1958). Aerial photographs of the US American Operation Highjump (1946–1947) from 1947 were used by the British geographer Derek Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960 for a new mapping.
Web links
- Cape Mawson in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Mawson on geographic.org (English)