Английская Википедия:Cape Conway
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Cape Conway is the rounded low and ice-free tipped cape forming the south extremity of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is a south entrance point for Boyd Strait. Tooth Rock (Шаблон:Coord) rising to Шаблон:Convert and lying Шаблон:Convert to the south is the largest in a group of rocks extending Шаблон:Convert from the cape. The area was visited by 19th century sealers.
Cape Conway was charted in 1829 by the British naval expedition under Captain Henry Foster and named after HMS Conway in which Foster had previously served. Tooth Rock was descriptively named following a survey from RRS John Biscoe in 1951–52.
Location
The cape is located at Шаблон:Coord which is Шаблон:Convert south-southeast of Byewater Point, Шаблон:Convert southwest of President Head, Шаблон:Convert southwest of Hall Peninsula and Шаблон:Convert east by north of Cape Smith, Smith Island (British mapping in 1821–22, 1935, 1951-51 and 1968, Argentine in 1946, Chilean in 1974, and Bulgarian in 2009).
See also
- Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
- List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
- SCAR
- Territorial claims in Antarctica
Maps
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. Шаблон:ISBN
References
External links
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