Cape Smyth
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 37 ′ S , 164 ° 40 ′ E | |
| location | Sturge Island ( Balleny Islands , East Antarctica ) | |
| Waters | Somow lake | |
Cape Smyth is a cape at the southern end of Sturge Island in the Balleny Islands archipelago .
The British polar explorer James Clark Ross mistakenly believed Sturge Island to be a group of three islands, the southernmost of which he named Smyth Island . Robert Falcon Scott clarified this error in 1904 during the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) and transferred Ross' name to this cape. It is named after the British astronomer William Henry Smyth (1788–1865), President of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1845 to 1846.
Web links
- Cape Smyth in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Smyth on geographic.org (English)