Cape Menzel

Map of Thurston Island.

Satellite image of Thurston Island.

Cape Menzel (72°3′S 95°46′W / 72.050°S 95.767°W / -72.050; -95.767Coordinates: 72°3′S 95°46′W / 72.050°S 95.767°W / -72.050; -95.767) is a bold rock cape marking the northern extremity of the otherwise ice-covered Lofgren Peninsula, in the northeast part of Thurston Island, Antarctica. It lies southeast of Cape Braathen across Cadwalader Inlet. It was discovered on helicopter flights from the USS Burton Island and USS Glacier by personnel of the U.S. Navy Bellingshausen Sea Expedition in February 1960. The cape was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Reinhard W. Menzel, a geomagnetist-seismologist with the Eights Station winter party, 1965.^[1]

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), 1993–2016.

References

↑ "Cape Menzel". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-09-19.

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