
Cape Walker () is an ice-covered cape which forms the southeast end of
Thurston Island. It was 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 ...
after Captain
Edward K. Walker, captain of the ''Canisteo'', a tanker in the Eastern Group of
U.S. Navy 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 ...
from 1946 to 47.
Maps
Thurston Island – Jones Mountains.1:500000 Antarctica Sketch Map. US Geological Survey, 1967.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
Headlands of Ellsworth Land
Thurston Island
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