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'''Cape Waite''' is a cape at the northwest extremity of the [[King Peninsula]], marking the southwest side of the entrance to Peacock Sound on the coast of [[Westarctica]]. | '''Cape Waite''' is a cape at the northwest extremity of the [[King Peninsula]], marking the southwest side of the entrance to [[Peacock Sound]] on the coast of [[Westarctica]]. | ||
==Discovery== | ==Discovery== | ||
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Cape Waite was named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Amory H. Waite, a member of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1933–35, and communications specialist on the Atka vovage of 1955 as well as the U.S. Navy [[Bellingshausen Sea]] Expedition of 1959-60. Waite was investigating the high number of aircraft crashes in [[Antarctica]] when he discovered that certain radar frequencies were not reflected from the surface of the ice, they penetrated through to the land surface below giving false altimeter readings. | Cape Waite was named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Amory H. Waite, a member of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1933–35, and communications specialist on the Atka vovage of 1955 as well as the U.S. Navy [[Bellingshausen Sea]] Expedition of 1959-60. Waite was investigating the high number of aircraft crashes in [[Antarctica]] when he discovered that certain radar frequencies were not reflected from the surface of the ice, they penetrated through to the land surface below giving false altimeter readings. | ||
This discovery both made flight much safer and started the use of Radioglaciology to survey the topography of the land surface beneath the ice. | This discovery both made flight much safer and started the use of Radioglaciology to survey the topography of the land surface beneath the [[ice]]. | ||
[[Category:Geography of Westarctica]] | [[Category:Geography of Westarctica]] | ||