Cape Timberlake () is a bold cape at the west side of the mouth of
Skelton Glacier
Skelton Glacier is a large glacier flowing from the polar plateau into the Ross Ice Shelf at Skelton Inlet on the Hillary Coast, south of Victoria Land, Antarctica.
Discovery and naming
Named after the Skelton Inlet by the New Zealand party ...
. Named by
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1964 for Lieutenant Commander
Lewis G. Timberlake,
U.S. Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage o ...
, public works officer at
McMurdo Station, 1962.
Headlands of the Ross Dependency
Hillary Coast
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