Cape Simpson is a high rocky bluff at the north end of
Ufs Island Ufs Island () is a rocky island wide, lying in the east part of Howard Bay, Antarctica, just north of the Lachal Bluffs, and about west of Allison Bay. Cape Simpson, the north end of this island, was discovered by the British Australian New Zeal ...
, forming the east side of the entrance to
Howard Bay.
Discovered in February 1931 by the
British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under
Mawson
Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader durin ...
. He named it for
A. A. Simpson of the
Royal Geographical Society of Australasia
On 22 June 1883, the Geographical Society of Australasia started at a meeting in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. A branch was formed in Victoria in the same year. In July 1885, both the Queensland and the South Australian branches started.
...
, who helped finance Mawson's Antarctic expeditions.
[''Today Not Tomorrow: A Century of Progress'' pub. A. Simpson & Son Ltd. Adelaide 1954]
References
Headlands of Mac. Robertson Land
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