Cape Waite is a cape at the northwest extremity of

King Peninsula King Peninsula () is an ice-covered peninsula, long and wide, lying south of Thurston Island and forming the south side of Peacock Sound, Antarctica. It projects from the continental ice sheet and trends west between the Abbot Ice Shelf and Cos ...

, marking the southwest side of the entrance to

Peacock Sound Peacock Sound is an ice-filled sound, long and wide, separating Thurston Island from the Eights Coast of Ellsworth Land in Antarctica. The sound is occupied by the western part of the Abbot Ice Shelf, and is therefore not navigable by ships. ...

. Delineated from air photos taken by

U.S. Navy Operation HIGHJUMP Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. The opera ...

in December 1946. Named by the

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

for Amory H. Waite, member of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1933–35, and communications specialist on the Atka voyage of 1955 and the U.S. Navy Bellingshausen Sea Expedition of 1959–60. Waite was investigating the high number of aircraft crashes in Antarctica when he discovered that certain

radar Radar is a detection system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (''ranging''), angle, and radial velocity of objects relative to the site. It can be used to detect aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, w ...

frequencies were not reflected from the surface of the ice, they penetrated through to the land surface below, giving false altimeter readings. This discovery both made flight much safer and started the use of

radioglaciology Radioglaciology is the study of glaciers, ice sheets, ice caps and icy moons using ice penetrating radar. It employs a geophysical method similar to ground-penetrating radar and typically operates at frequencies in the MF, HF, VHF and UHF port ...

to survey the

topography Topography is the study of the forms and features of land surfaces. The topography of an area may refer to the land forms and features themselves, or a description or depiction in maps. Topography is a field of geoscience and planetary sci ...

of the land surface beneath the ice.''The Secret Life of Ice'' by Doctor Gabrielle Walker

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References

Headlands of Ellsworth Land {{EllsworthLand-geo-stub