Cape Walcott

Cape Walcott is a bold, ice-covered

headland A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water. It is a type of promontory. A headland of considerable size often is called a cape.Whittow, John ...

rising to 625 m on the north side of the entrance to

Bertius Inlet Bertius Inlet ( bg, text=залив Бертий, italic=no, ‘Zaliv Bertius’ \'za-liv 'ber-tiy\) is the 8.3 km wide ice-filled inlet indenting for 9 km Wilkins Coast on the Antarctic Peninsula. It is entered south of Cape Walcott an ...

, and forming the seaward extremity of Scripps Heights on the east coast of

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 ...

. Discovered by Sir Hubert Wilkins in 1928 and named by him for

Frederic C. Walcott Frederic Collin Walcott (February 19, 1869April 27, 1949) was a United States senator from Connecticut. Biography Born in New York Mills, Oneida County, New York, the son of William Stuart Walcott and Emeline Alice Welch Walcott, Walcott atten ...

of the Council of the American Geographical Society. Headlands of Palmer Land {{PalmerLand-geo-stub