Cape Simonov
| Cape Simonov | ||
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 48 ′ S , 116 ° 55 ′ E | |
| location | Wilkesland , East Antarctica | |
| coast | Sabrina coast | |
| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Waters 2 | Totten glacier | |
Cape Simonow ( Russian Мыс Симонова Mys Simonowa ) is a cape on the Sabrina coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . It protrudes east of the mouth of the Totten Glacier in the Southern Ocean .
The American cartographer Gardner Dean Blodgett (* 1925), employee of the Department of Geography in the United States Department of the Interior , mapped it in 1955 using aerial photographs of Operation Highjump (1946-1947) of the United States Navy . Further aerial photos were taken in 1956 during a Soviet Antarctic expedition . It is named after Iwan Michailowitsch Simonow (1794–1855), Russian astronomer and participant in the first Russian Antarctic expedition (1819–1821) under the direction of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen .
Web links
- Cape Simonov in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)