Cape Calmette () is a cape marking the western extremity of a rocky peninsula which rises more than and projects from the west 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 a ...

for to form the southern shore of

Calmette Bay Calmette Bay () is a small bay between Camp Point and Cape Calmette, on the west coast of Graham Land. It was charted by the British Graham Land Expedition under John Rymill John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * J ...

. It was discovered in 1909 by the

French Antarctic Expedition The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several French expeditions in Antarctica. First expedition In 1772, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec and the naturalist Jean Guillaume Bruguière sailed to the Antarctic region in search of the fabl ...

under

Jean-Baptiste Charcot Jean-Baptiste-Étienne-Auguste Charcot (15 July 1867 – 16 September 1936), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893). Life Jean-Bap ...

, who from a distance mistook this cape for an island; the British Graham Land Expedition under

John Rymill John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Seco ...

, 1934–37, determined the true nature of the feature. It was named by Charcot for

Gaston Calmette Gaston Calmette (30 July 1858 – 16 March 1914) was a French journalist and newspaper editor, whose death was the subject of a notable murder trial. Biography Calmette was born in Montpellier. He was educated at Nice, Bordeaux, Clermont-Fer ...

, editor of ''

Le Figaro ''Le Figaro'' () is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It is headquartered on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The oldest national newspaper in France, ''Le Figaro'' is one of three French Newspaper of recor ...

'', who furnished the French Antarctic Expedition with copies of this newspaper for the two years preceding the expedition.

References

Headlands of Graham Land Fallières Coast {{FallièresCoast-geo-stub