Caroline Bluff () is a bluff lying southeast of
North Foreland
North Foreland is a chalk headland on the Kent coast of southeast England, specifically in Broadstairs.
With the rest of Broadstairs and part of Ramsgate it is the eastern side of Kent's largest peninsula, the Isle of Thanet. It presents a bo ...
,
King George Island, 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 ...
. The bluff was charted and named "North Foreland Head" by Scottish geologist
David Ferguson in 1921. To avoid confusion with North Foreland, the
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...
rejected this name in 1960 and substituted a new one. The
Hobart sealing vessel ''Caroline'' (Captain
D. Taylor D. or d. may refer to, usually as an abbreviation:
* Don (honorific), a form of address in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and their former overseas empires, usually given to nobles or other individuals of high social rank.
* Date of death, as an abbreviat ...
) visited the South Shetland Islands in 1821–22.
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References
cliffs of the South Shetland Islands
landforms of King George Island (South Shetland Islands)
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