Cape Hordern

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Cape Hordern (66°15′S 100°31′E) is an ice-free cape, overlain by morainic drift, at the northwest end of the Bunger Hills. Probably sighted from Watson Bluff (66°25′S 98°57′E) by A.L. Kennedy and other members of the Western Base Party of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Mawson, 1911-14, who charted the west wall of what appeared to be two small islands lying north of Cape Hoadley in about 100°35' E. Named "Hordern Island" by Mawson for Sir Samuel Hordern of Sydney, a patron of the AAE. Renamed Cape Hordern by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) following correlation of Kennedy's map with the US-ACAN map of 1955 compiled from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47.

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