Cape Davis

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Cape Davis ( 66°24′S56°50′E / 66.400°S 56.833°E / -66.400; 56.833 Coordinates: 66°24′S56°50′E / 66.400°S 56.833°E / -66.400; 56.833 ) is a rounded ice-covered cape along the north coast of Edward VIII Plateau, 17 kilometres (9 nmi) east of Magnet Bay. It was discovered on 12 January 1930 by the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Mawson, who named it for Captain John King Davis, Director of Navigation under the Commonwealth Government and ship's captain and second in command of BANZARE. [1]

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The Edward VIII Plateau is a dome-shaped, ice-covered peninsula between Magnet Bay and Edward VIII Bay. It was probably seen by personnel on the RSS William Scoresby in 1936, and mapped from aerial photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37, and named Gulfplataet. It was renamed "King Edward Plateau" by ANCA, but the form Edward VIII Plateau has been approved by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) to be consistent with the names of nearby Edward VIII Bay and Ice Shelf.

Magnet Bay is a shallow coastal indentation, 13 kilometres (7 nmi) wide and receding only 3.7 kilometres (2 nmi), located 17 kilometres (9 nmi) west of Cape Davis at the northwest side of Edward VIII Plateau in Antarctica.

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PD-icon.svg This article incorporates  public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Davis, Cape" (content from the Geographic Names Information System ).

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