Cape Wiman

	Cape Wiman ; Spanish : Cabo Gorrochátegui
	Geographical location
Coordinates	64 ° 13 ′ S , 56 ° 37 ′ W Coordinates: 64 ° 13 ′ S , 56 ° 37 ′ W
location	Seymour Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica )
Waters	Erebus and Terror Gulf and the Weddell Sea
Waters 2	Bertodano Bay and Jorge Cove

Cape Wiman (in Argentina Cabo Gorrochátegui ) is a low and rocky cape in the north of the Seymour Island off the north east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula .

It is believed to have been discovered by the British polar explorer James Clark Ross during his Antarctic expedition (1839–1843). However, it was first measured during the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under Otto Nordenskjöld . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1958 after the Swedish paleontologist Carl Wiman (1867-1944), who had examined the fossils found on the Swedish research trip to Seymour Island . The name giver of the Argentine name is José Gorrochátegui, ship's doctor of the corvette Uruguay in the rescue of the participants of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901-1903).

Web links

Cape Wiman in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
Cape Wiman on geographic.org (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Gorrochategui, cabo in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on July 13, 2017
^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1 and 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 647 and 1715 (English).

[1] Gorrochategui, cabo in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on July 13, 2017

[2] John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1 and 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 647 and 1715 (English).