Cape Waldron

	Cape Waldron
	Geographical location
Coordinates	66 ° 34 ′ S , 115 ° 33 ′ E Coordinates: 66 ° 34 ′ S , 115 ° 33 ′ E
location	Wilkesland , East Antarctica
coast	Border between the Budd and Sabrina coasts
Waters	Southern ocean

Cape Waldron is an ice-covered cape in the East Antarctic Wilkesland , immediately west of the Totten Glacier . It separates the Budd coast in the west from the Sabrina coast in the east.

The American cartographer Gardner Dean Blodgett (* 1925) mapped it in 1955 using aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy during Operation Highjump (1946-47) under the direction of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the cape in 1955 after Richard Russel Waldron (1803-1846), paymaster of the sloop USS Vincennes , flagship of the United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) under the direction of the American polar explorer Charles Wilkes .

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