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Cape Waite (72°42′S 103°3′W / 72.700°S 103.050°W / -72.700; -103.050) 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.

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