Cape Simpson is a high rocky bluff at the north end of
Ufs Island Ufs Island () is a rocky island wide, lying in the east part of Howard Bay, Antarctica, just north of the Lachal Bluffs, and about west of Allison Bay. Cape Simpson, the north end of this island, was discovered by the British Australian New Ze ...
, forming the east side of the entrance to
Howard Bay.
Discovered in February 1931 by the
British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition
The British Australian (and) New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) was a research expedition into Antarctica between 1929 and 1931, involving two voyages over consecutive Austral summers. It was a British Commonwealth initiative, dr ...
(BANZARE) under
Mawson
Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader dur ...
. He named it for
A. A. Simpson
Alfred Allen Simpson (15 April 1875 – 27 November 1939) was an industrialist in South Australia and a partner in the firm A. Simpson & Son, founded by his grandfather Alfred Simpson. He was the mayor of Adelaide from 1913 to 1915.
Histor ...
of the
Royal Geographical Society of Australasia
On 22 June 1883, the Geographical Society of Australasia started at a meeting in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. A branch was formed in Victoria in the same year. In July 1885, both the Queensland and the South Australian branches started.
...
, who helped finance Mawson's Antarctic expeditions.
[''Today Not Tomorrow: A Century of Progress'' pub. A. Simpson & Son Ltd. Adelaide 1954]
References
Headlands of Mac. Robertson Land
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