
Cape Alexander () is a cape which forms the south end of
Churchill Peninsula and the east side of the entrance to
Cabinet Inlet
Cabinet Inlet () is an icy inlet, long in a northwest–southeast direction, and some wide at its entrance between Cape Alexander and Cape Robinson, along the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was named and charted by the Falkland Islan ...
, on the east coast of
Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee ...
. It was charted by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies
The Falkland Islands Dependencies was the constitutional arrangement from 1843 until 1985 for administering the v ...
(FIDS) and photographed from the air by the
Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition
The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.
Background
Finn Ronne led the RARE which was the final privately sponsored exp ...
(RARE) in December 1947.
Cape Alexander was named by the FIDS for Rt. Hon.
Albert V. Alexander, M.P.,
First Lord of the Admiralty
First Lord of the Admiralty, or formally the Office of the First Lord of the Admiralty, was the title of the political head of the English and later British Royal Navy. He was the government's senior adviser on all naval affairs, responsible f ...
.
Further reading
* R. K. Headland, '
Chronological List of Antarctic Expeditions and Related Historical Events'', P 353
* Pedro Skvarca, '
Changes and surface features of the Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica, derived from Landsat and Kosmos mosaics'', Annals of Glaciology, Volume 20 1994, PP 6–12
* NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, '
SAILING DIRECTIONS & ENROUTE, ANTARCTICA'', P 106
References
Headlands of Graham Land
Foyn Coast
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