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Cape Davis (66°24′S 56°50′E / 66.400°S 56.833°E / -66.400; 56.833) is a rounded ice-covered cape along the north coast of Edward VIII Plateau, 17 kilometres (9 nmi) east of Magnet Bay. It was discovered on 12 January 1930 by the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Mawson, who named it for Captain John King Davis, Director of Navigation under the Commonwealth Government and ship's captain and second in command of BANZARE.[1]

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Cape Davis

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Cape Davis (66°24′S 56°50′E / 66.400°S 56.833°E / -66.400; 56.833) is a rounded ice-covered cape along the north coast of Edward VIII Plateau, 17 kilometres...

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publishing trade at the Medici Society. Cape's biographer (and sometimes junior partner) Rupert Hart-Davis writes: Cape quickly saw that Howard had a fine...

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of the Cape Ann Historical Association to the Cape Ann Museum to reflect its current collecting and programming mission. The Captain Elias Davis House...

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Victoria Land, Antarctica. The name Cape Davis, after John E. Davis, Second Master of the HMS Terror, was given to a cape in the immediate area by Captain...

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Physalis peruviana

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numerous indigenous and regional names. In English, its common names include Cape gooseberry, goldenberry and Peruvian groundcherry. The history of P. peruviana...

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Sotogrande and won the 2023 Cape Town Ladies Open. She was also runner-up at the 2019 Tipsport Czech Ladies Open. Davis was born in Poole, Dorset and...

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his land in 1898. In 1903 Davis bought the abandoned Cape Florida lighthouse from the United States Treasury for US$400. Davis started a pineapple plantation...

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Chase Davis

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runs, and 54 RBIs. After the season, Davis played collegiate summer baseball for the Wareham Gatemen of the Cape Cod Baseball League. He also played for...

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Davis on August 1, 1587, after his friend and fellow explorer John Chidley. On October 22, 1943, the German submarine U-537 landed just south of Cape...

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List of governors of British South African colonies

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and Yearly Register. No. 35. Pietermaritzburg: P. Davis & Sons. 1897. p. 304. "South Africa: Cape Colony", worldstatesmen.org © Ben Cahoon. "South Africa:...

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Magnet Bay

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needed] only 3.7 kilometres (2 nmi), located 17 kilometres (9 nmi) west of Cape Davis at the northwest side of Edward VIII Plateau in Antarctica. The British...

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Red kite

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and northwest Africa to the Middle East M. m. fasciicauda Hartert, 1914 – Cape Verde Islands The subspecies M. m. fasciicauda is almost certainly extinct...

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Galten Islands

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eastern part of Magnet Bay, Antarctica, 19 kilometres (10 nmi) west of Cape Davis. They were mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken...

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