Cape Waite
| Cape Waite | ||
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 42 ′ S , 103 ° 3 ′ W | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| coast | Border between Walgreen and Eights coasts | |
| Waters | Ferrero Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Peacock Sound | |
The Cape Waite is a cape on the border between Walgreen- and Eights Coast of the East Antarctic Ellsworthlands . It is located at the northwest end of the King Peninsula and limits the entrance to Peacock Sound to the southwest and the one to Ferrero Bay to the northwest .
It was captured via aerial photographs of the United States Navy during Operation Highjump in December 1946. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1960 after Amory Hooper Waite Jr. (1902–1985), a participant in the second Antarctic expedition (1933–1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd , on the trip on the icebreaker Atka in 1955 and on the US Navy expedition to the Bellingshausen Sea (1959–1960).
Web links
- Cape Waite in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Waite on geographic.org (English)