Cape Simpson
| Cape Simpson | ||
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 28 ′ S , 61 ° 8 ′ E | |
| location | Ufsøy ( Robinson Group , East Antarctica ) | |
| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Waters 2 | Howard Bay | |
Cape Simpson is a towering and rocky headland on the north coast of the island of Ufsøy, off the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . The cape forms the east side of the entrance to.
Participants of the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered this formation in February 1931. Mawson named it after the Australian entrepreneur Frederick Neighbor Simpson (1877-1954), a sponsor of this research trip .
Web links
- Cape Simpson in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Simpson on geographic.org (English)