Cape Waite: Difference between revisions

Content deleted Content added

Inline

Latest revision as of 20:59, 20 April 2024

Redirect to:

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
+#redirect [[King Peninsula#Cape Waite]]
-'''Cape Waite''' is a cape at the northwest extremity of [[King Peninsula]], marking the southwest side of the entrance to [[Peacock Sound]]. Delineated from air photos taken by [[U.S. Navy Operation Highjump]] in December 1946. Named by [[Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names]] (US-ACAN) for [[Amory H. Waite]], member of the [[Byrd Antarctic Expedition]], 1933–35, and communications specialist on the Atka vovage of 1955 and the [[U.S. Navy Bellingshausen Sea Expedition]] of 1959-60. Waite was investigating the high number of aircraft crashes in Antarctica when he discovered that certain [[radar]] frequencies were not reflected from the surface of the ice, they [[Ground-penetrating radar|penetrated]] through to the land surface below giving false [[altimeter]] readings.  This discovery both made flight much safer and started the use of [[Radioglaciology]] to survey the [[topography]] of the land surface beneath the ice.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b016fpyy/The_Secret_Life_of_Ice/ [[BBC]] BBC Four, 8:00PM Thu, 27 Oct 2011, ''[[The Secret Life of Ice]]'' by Doctor Gabrielle Walker]</ref>
-==References==
-{{reflist}}
-{{usgs-gazetteer}}
-{{coord|72|42|S|103|1|W|display=title|scale:2000000}}
-{{DEFAULTSORT:Waite, Cape}}
 [[Category:Headlands of Ellsworth Land]]
-[[Category:Geography of the British Antarctic Territory]]
-{{EllsworthLand-geo-stub}}