Cape Walden
| Cape Walden | ||
 Map of Thurston Island with Cape Walden (top right) |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 50 ′ S , 96 ° 53 ′ W | |
| location | Thurston Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Waters | Bellingshausen lake | |
| Waters 2 | Koether Inlet | |
The Cape Walden is the icy cape at the northwest end of Evans Peninsula in the north of Thurston Island before Eights Coast of the West Antarctic Ellsworthlands . To the east, it marks the entrance to Koether Inlet .
Its position was determined from aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy VX-6 squadron in January 1960. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1960 after Arthur Treadwell Walden (1871-1947), dog sled driver and leader of the support team for the exploration of the Queen Maud Mountains on the first Antarctic expedition (1928-1930) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd .
Web links
- Cape Walden in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Walden on geographic.org (English)