
Cape Melville
(Destruction Bay)
British Antarctic Territory
Location: 62° 1' 29" S 57° 34' 51" W
SE point of King George Island, was charted by Bransfield, 22 January 1820, and named after Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville (Cape Dundas, q.v.). The name Cape Melville was also applied to North Foreland (q.v.) on some early charts. The cape was further charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908-10, in December 1909. The cape was recharted by Discovery Investigations in January 1937 and photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in December 1956.