Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Beneden Head

(Danco Coast)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 64° 46' 2" S 62° 42' 4" W
NE entrance point of Andvord Bay, Danco Coast, was charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in February 1898 and named Cap Van Beneden, after Prof. Édouard Joseph-Louis-Marie Van Beneden (1846-1910), of the Université de Liège; member of the Académie Royale de Belgique and of the Commission de la Belgica, appointed in December 1899; author of several zoological reports of the expedition. Following survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Norsel in April 1955, the feature was renamed Beneden Head.