Cape Brown

For the headland in Greenland, see Cape Brown (Greenland). For the butterfly with this name, see Cassionympha detecta.

Cape Brown
Headland
Cape Brown
Coordinates: 69°16′S 69°45′W
Location	Alexander Island
Offshore water bodies	Bellingshausen Sea
Area
• Total	Antarctica

Cape Brown is a prominent ice-covered cape 5.5 nautical miles (10 km) north-northeast of the summit of Mount Nicholas (Mount Nicholas being the northern extremity of the Douglas Range), marking the eastern side of the entrance to Schokalsky Bay on the northeast coast of Alexander Island in Antarctica. It was first seen from a distance by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot in 1909, but charted as part of a small island. It was photographed from the air in 1937 by the British Graham Land Expedition under John Rymill, and later roughly mapped from the photos. It was surveyed from the ground in 1948 by Colin C. Brown, Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey surveyor at Stonington Island, 1948–49, for whom the cape is named.

See also

• Cape Vostok
• Kosar Point

Further reading

• Defense Mapping Agency 1992, Sailing Directions (planning Guide) and (enroute) for Antarctica, P 377
• Ute Christina Herzfeld, Atlas of Antarctica: Topographic Maps from Geostatistical Analysis of Satellite Radar Altimeter Data, P 170

External links

• Cape Brown on USGS website
• Cape Brown on AADC website
• Cape Brown on SCAR website

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from "Brown, Cape". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.