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Cape Walker () is an ice-covered cape which forms the southeast end of Thurston Island. It was 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 ...
after Captain Edward K. Walker, captain of the ''Canisteo'', a tanker in the Eastern Group of
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 ...
from 1946 to 47.


Maps


Thurston Island – Jones Mountains.
1:500000 Antarctica Sketch Map. US Geological Survey, 1967.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated. Headlands of Ellsworth Land Thurston Island {{ThurstonIsland-geo-stub