Cape Lamb () is a cape which forms the southwestern tip of
Vega Island
Vega Island is a small island to the northwest of James Ross Island, on the Antarctic Peninsula. It is separated from James Ross Island by Herbert Sound. The island was named by Otto Nordenskjold, leader of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (190 ...
in the
James Ross Island group, Antarctica. It was discovered by the
Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under
Otto Nordenskjold
Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity".
The name is recorded fro ...
. It was resighted in 1945 by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), and named after
Ivan M. Lamb (1911–90), a botanist on the FIDS staff at
Port Lockroy (1944),
Hope Bay (1945), and the leader of a biological expedition to the
Melchior Islands, 1964–65.
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References
Headlands of the James Ross Island group
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