Cape Murdoch

Cape Murdoch is a cape which forms the southeast tip of Mossman Peninsula on the south coast of Laurie Island, in the South Orkney Islands.[1]

For the cape in NW Greenland, see Cape Murdoch (Greenland).
Cape Murdoch
Coordinates60°48′S 44°41′W

Charted in 1903 by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition under Bruce, who named it after William Gordon Burn Murdoch, Scottish artist on the Balaena, one of the Dundee whaling ships in the Antarctic in 1892–93, and a supporter of Bruce's expedition.

References
  1.  This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Cape Murdoch". (content from the Geographic Names Information System) 


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