Beneden Head
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Beneden Head is a steep-sided headland, 2,297 feet high on the Danco Coast on the west side of Graham Land in the British Antarctic Territory. It is the north-east entrance point of Andvord Bay.
The headland was charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in February 1898 and named Cap Van Beneden, after Professor Édouard Joseph-Louis-Marie Van Beneden (1846-1910), of the Université de Liège; member of the Académie Royale de Belgique and of the Commission de la Belgica, appointed in December 1899; author of several zoological reports of the expedition.[1]
Following a survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Norsel in April 1955, the feature was renamed 'Beneden Head'.
Location
- Location map: 64°46’2"S, 62°42’4"W
References
- ↑ Alberts 1995, p. 58.
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Beneden Head