Cape Conway is the rounded low and ice-free tipped cape forming the south extremity of Snow Island

Snow Island (South Shetland Islands)

Snow Island or Isla Nevada is a completely ice-covered island, in size, lying southwest of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. Surface area...

 in the South Shetland Islands

South Shetland Islands

The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands, lying about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, with a total area of . By the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the Islands' sovereignty is neither recognized nor disputed by the signatories and they are free for use by any signatory for...

, Antarctica. It is a south entrance point for Boyd Strait

Boyd Strait

Boyd Strait is the wide strait lying between Snow Island and Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, and linking Drake Passage and the Bransfield Strait....

. Tooth Rock (62°51′32.4"S 61°25′33.9"W) rising to 85 m (279 ft) and lying 1.94 km (1.2 mi) to the south is the largest in a group of rocks extending 2.7 km (1.7 mi) from the cape. The area was visited by 19th century sealers

Seal hunting

Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals. The hunt is currently practiced in five countries: Canada, where most of the world's seal hunting takes place, Namibia, the Danish region of Greenland, Norway and Russia...

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Cape Conway was charted in 1829 by the British naval expedition under Captain Henry Foster

Henry Foster (scientist)

Henry Foster was a British naval officer who took part in expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic and made various notable scientific observations....

 and named after HMS Conway in which Foster had previously served. Tooth Rock was descriptively named following a survey from RRS John Biscoe in 1951-52.

Location

The cape is located at 62°50′30"S 61°25′43"W which is 10.58 km (6.6 mi) south-southeast of Byewater Point

Byewater Point

Byewater Point is the rocky point forming the northwest extremity of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is a north entrance point for Boyd Strait...

, 17.3 km (10.7 mi) southwest of President Head

President Head

President Head is a headland forming the east extremity of Snow Island, in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Extending 2.6 km in east-northeast direction, rising to 107 m at St. Sofroniy Knoll. Adjacent ice-free area ca. ....

, 11.75 km (7.3 mi) southwest of Hall Peninsula

Hall Peninsula, Snow Island

Hall Peninsula is a small ice-free peninsula on the southeast coast of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The feature is scissors shaped with its north and south arms extending 800 m and 750 m respectively, with Ivaylo Cove lying in between...

 and 44.46 km (27.6 mi) east by north of Cape Smith

Cape Smith

Cape Smith is a cape forming the north end of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The discovery of the South Shetland Islands was first reported in 1819 by Captain William Smith, for whom the cape is named.-Location:...

, Smith Island

Smith Island (South Shetland Islands)

Smith Island is long and wide, lying west of Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands of the British Antarctic Territory. Surface area ....

 (British mapping in 1821-22, 1935, 1951-51 and 1968, Argentine in 1946, Chilean in 1974, and Bulgarian in 2009).

See also

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
• SCAR
  Scar
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• Territorial claims in Antarctica

Map

• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

External links

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.