Feature Name (see definition): Hattersley-Smith, Cape

Feature Class (see definition): Cape

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 6478

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 71° 51' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 061° 04' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -71.85

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -61.0666667

Elevation (see definition): No data

Decision Year (see definition): No data

Description (see definition): A cape marked by a triangular rock peak at the SE end of Condor Peninsula, 5 mi SW of Cape Knowles, on the Black Coast, Palmer Land. The cape was photographed from the air by the U.S. Antarctic Service (USAS) on Dec. 30, 1940. It was surveyed by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS)-Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) party from Stonington Island in Nov. 1947 and was rephotographed by the U.S. Navy in 1966. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1984 after Geoffrey Francis Hattersley-Smith, with British Antarctic Survey (BAS) from 1973 (Secretary, UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC), 1975-91); Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) Base Leader and glaciologist, Admiralty Bay, 1948-49; with Defense Research Board, Canada, 1951-73 (field research in the Arctic); author of The History of Place-names in the Falkland Islands Dependencies (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands), Cambridge, 1980, and The History of Place-names in the British Antarctic Territory, Cambridge, 1991.

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