Cape Simpson is a high rocky bluff at the north end of Ufs Island , forming the east side of the entrance to Howard Bay .
5-735: Discovered in February 1931 by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Mawson . He named it for A. A. Simpson of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia , who helped finance Mawson's Antarctic expeditions. [REDACTED] This article incorporates public domain material from "Cape Simpson" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . [REDACTED] This Mac. Robertson Land location article
10-434: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition The British Australian (and) New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition ( BANZARE ) was a research expedition into Antarctica between 1929 and 1931, involving two voyages over consecutive Austral summers. It was a British Commonwealth initiative, driven more by geopolitics than science, and funded by
15-718: The United Kingdom , Australia and New Zealand . The leader of the BANZARE was Sir Douglas Mawson and there were several subcommanders (Captain K.N. MacKenzie , who replaced Captain John King Davis for the second summer) on board the RRS Discovery , the ship previously used by Robert Falcon Scott . The BANZARE, which also made several short flights in a small plane, mapped the coastline of Antarctica and discovered Mac. Robertson Land and Princess Elizabeth Land (which later
20-667: The site which Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition had occupied in 1912–13. A hand-written copy of the proclamation was left at the site, enclosed in a container made of food tins and buried beneath a cairn. The letter was retrieved in 1977 by an Australian Antarctic expedition, and is part of the Mawson collection at the National Museum of Australia . The BANZARE was also a scientific quest, producing 13 volumes of reports, on geology, oceanography, meteorology, terrestrial magnetism, zoology and botany, between 1937 and 1975. Robert Falla
25-484: Was claimed as part of the Australian Antarctic Territory ). The voyages primarily comprised an "acquisitive exploratory expedition", with Mawson making proclamations of British sovereignty over Antarctic lands at each of their five landfalls—on the understanding that the territory would later be handed to Australia (as it was in 1933). One such proclamation was made on 5 January 1931 at Cape Denison ,
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