
Cape Smith is a cape forming the north end of
Smith Island Smith Island or Smith's Island may refer to the following places:
Antarctica
* Smith Islands, Wilkes Land
* Smith Island (South Shetland Islands)
Australia
* Smith Islands National Park, Queensland
*Smith Island (South Australia)
Bermuda
* Smith ...
in the
South Shetland Islands
The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...
,
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest co ...
. The discovery of the South Shetland Islands was first reported in 1819 by Captain
William Smith, for whom the cape is named.
Location
The point is located at which is 3.31 km east-northeast of
Matochina Peak, 12.85 km east-northeast of
Gregory Point, 4.16 km east by north of
Delyan Point, 2 km east-southeast of
Barlow Island and 40.5 km west-southwest of
Snow Island (Bulgarian mapping in 2009).
Maps
Chart of South Shetland including Coronation Island, &c.from the exploration of the sloop Dove in the years 1821 and 1822 by George Powell Commander of the same. Scale ca. 1:200000. London: Laurie, 1822.
* L.L. Ivanov.
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. (First edition 2009. )
South Shetland Islands: Smith and Low Islands.Scale 1:150000 topographic map No. 13677. British Antarctic Survey, 2009.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
* L.L. Ivanov.
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.
References
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
External links
Delyan Point.Adjusted Copernix satellite image
Headlands of Smith Island (South Shetland Islands)
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