Cape Calmette is a cape marking the western extremity of a rocky peninsula which rises more than 625 metre and projects from the west coast of Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

 for 3 miles (5 km) to form the southern shore of Calmette Bay

Calmette Bay

Calmette Bay is a small bay between Camp Point and Cape Calmette, on the west coast of Graham Land. It was charted by the British Graham Land Expedition under Rymill, 1934–37, who named the bay for its southern entrance point, Cape Calmette....

. It was discovered in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition

French Antarctic Expedition

French Antarctic Expedition refers to several French expeditions in Antarctica.-First expedition:Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec was a French explorer....

 under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, who from a distance mistook this cape for an island; the British Graham Land Expedition

British Graham Land Expedition

A British expedition to Graham Land led by John Lachlan Cope took place between 1920 and 1922. The British Graham Land Expedition was a geophysical and exploration expedition to Graham Land in Antarctica between 1934 to 1937. Under the leadership of John Riddoch Rymill, the expedition spent two...

 under Rymill, 1934–37, determined the true nature of the feature. It was named by Charcot for Gaston Calmette

Gaston Calmette

Gaston Calmette was a French journalist.In January 1914 Calmette, who had been editor of the newspaper Le Figaro since 1902, launched a campaign against Minister of Finance Joseph Caillaux, who had introduced progressive taxation and was known for his pacifist stance towards Germany during the...

, editor of Le Figaro

Le Figaro

Le Figaro is a French daily newspaper founded in 1826 and published in Paris. It is one of three French newspapers of record, with Le Monde and Libération, and is the oldest newspaper in France. It is also the second-largest national newspaper in France after Le Parisien and before Le Monde, but...

, who furnished the French Antarctic Expedition with copies of this newspaper for the two years preceding the expedition.