Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Cape Wollaston

(Trinity Island)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 63° 40' 4" S 60° 47' 25" W
NW point of Trinity Island, Palmer Archipelago, may have been the feature roughly charted by Davis in 1821, further roughly charted by Hoseason in 1824, and called descriptively Bluff Poin; recharted by Foster in 1829 and named Cape Wollaston after William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828), British physiologist, chemist and physicist; Secretary of the Royal Society, 1804-16, and Commissioner of the Royal Society on the Board of Longitude, 1818-28. The name Cape Wollaston in various forms was applied in error from c.1921 to Cape Neumayer (q.v.), but the following forms refer to the present feature. The cape was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956.