Cape Jeremy is a
cape marking the east side of the north entrance to
George VI Sound and the west end of a line dividing
Graham Land and
Palmer Land
Palmer Land () is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica that lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the Advisory Committee on Antarctic N ...
, Antarctica. It was discovered by the
British Graham Land expedition, 1934–37, under
John Riddoch Rymill, who named it for
Jeremy Scott
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, son of
James Maurice Scott, who served as home agent for the expedition
[ and was formerly a member of the ]British Arctic Air Route Expedition
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.
Nogal de Saldán Refuge
Nogal de Saldán Refuge () is an Argentine Antarctic refuge located south east of Cape Jeremy, on the Fallières Coast. It is administered by the Argentine Army and depends on the San Martín Base ("Willing men, fight and win since 1951")
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, which is to the north.
Gustavo Adolfo Giró Tapper
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, with the rank of lieutenant, served as commander of the San Martín Base during the International Geophysical Year
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of the 1958. Its group was composed of 20 units. In the winter, he drove a patrol with sled pulled by dogs, to Cape Jeremy installing the Refuge Nogal de Saldán in September. Then he crossed the Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...
between Marguerite Bay and the Weddell Sea. The refuge was then abandoned.[ Refugio Nogal de Saldán, Retrieved September 30, 2018]
See also
* List of Antarctic field camps
References
Headlands of Palmer Land
Headlands of Graham Land
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