Tange Promontory is an ice-covered peninsula just west of
Casey Bay Casey Bay is a large Antarctic bay indenting the coast of Enderby Land between Tange Promontory and Dingle Dome. The feature was observed from Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions aircraft in 1956. It was named by the Antarctic Names ...
on the coast of
Enderby Land
Enderby Land is a projecting landmass of Antarctica. Its shore extends from Shinnan Glacier at about to William Scoresby Bay at , approximately of the earth's longitude. It was first documented in western and eastern literature in February 18 ...
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 ...
.
Kirkby Head is a sheer coastal
outcrop
An outcrop or rocky outcrop is a visible exposure of bedrock or ancient superficial deposits on the surface of the Earth.
Features
Outcrops do not cover the majority of the Earth's land surface because in most places the bedrock or superficia ...
on Tange Promontory, at the east side of the entrance to
Alasheyev Bight.
Tange Promontory was plotted from air photographs taken from an ANARE (
Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions
The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE ) is the historical name for the Australian Antarctic Program (AAp) administered for Australia by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD).
History
Australia has had a long involv ...
) aircraft in November 1956 and mapped by the
Soviet Antarctic Expedition
The Soviet Antarctic Expedition (SAE or SovAE) (russian: Советская антарктическая экспедиция, САЭ, ''Sovetskaya antarkticheskaya ekspeditsiya'') was part of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute of the S ...
in February 1957. Tange Promontory was named by
ANCA for Sir
Arthur Tange
Sir Arthur Harold Tange (18 August 1914 – 10 May 2001) was a prominent Australian senior public servant of the middle to late 20th century.
A considerable intellect, he was one of the most influential people in the government of Australia fo ...
, Secretary of the
Australian Department of External Affairs from 1954 to 1965.
See also
*
Lamykin Dome, domed feature which forms the ice-covered summit of Tange Promontory
References
Peninsulas of Antarctica
Landforms of Enderby Land
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