Cape Bruce is the northern tip of a small island lying at the east side of Oom Bay

Oom Bay

Oom Bay is a well-defined bay, 2 mi wide, indenting the Mawson coast between Cape Bruce and Campbell Head. Discovered in February 1931 by the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition under Douglas Mawson, who named it for Lieutenant K.E. Oom, RAN, cartographer with the...

, separated from the mainland rocks just west of Taylor Glacier in Antarctica. A landing was made there on February 18, 1931, by the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition

British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition

The British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition was a research expedition into Antarctica between 1929 and 1931, involving two voyages over consecutive Austral summers...

 under Sir Douglas Mawson

Douglas Mawson

Sir Douglas Mawson, OBE, FRS, FAA was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and Academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.-Early work:He was appointed geologist to an...

. It was named by Mawson for Rt. Hon. Stanley Bruce

Stanley Bruce

Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne, CH, MC, FRS, PC , was an Australian politician and diplomat, and the eighth Prime Minister of Australia. He was the second Australian granted an hereditary peerage of the United Kingdom, but the first whose peerage was formally created...

(later Lord Bruce) Prime Minister of Australia, 1923–29.