Cape Waldron () is an ice-covered cape in
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 ...
, just westward of
Totten Glacier
Totten Glacier is a large glacier draining a major portion of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, through the Budd Coast of Wilkes Land in the Australian Antarctic Territory. The catchment drained by the glacier is estimated at , extending approximate ...
. It was delineated by
G.D. Blodgett
GD, Gd, or gd may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* G-Dragon (born 1988), leader of the South Korean musical group Big Bang
* Grateful Dead, an American rock band
* Green Day, an American rock band
* ''Geometry Dash'', a rhythm-based video game ...
(1955) from aerial photographs taken by USN
Operation Highjump
Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. The opera ...
(1946–47), and named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica.
History
The committee was established ...
(US-ACAN) for
R.R. Waldron, purser on the sloop
USS Vincennes
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* , was an 18-gun sloop-of-war commissioned in 1826 and sold in 1867
* , was a commissioned in 1937 and lost in the Battle of Savo Island in 1942
* was a commissioned in 1944 and decommissioned in 1946
* was a ...
of the
United States Exploring Expedition
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(1838–42) under Lt.
Charles Wilkes
Charles Wilkes (April 3, 1798 – February 8, 1877) was an American naval officer, ship's captain, and explorer. He led the United States Exploring Expedition (1838–1842).
During the American Civil War (1861–1865), he commanded ' during the ...
.
Headlands of Wilkes Land
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