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Cape Conway
Cape Conway is the rounded low and ice-free tipped cape forming the south extremity of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is a south entrance point for Boyd Strait. ''Tooth Rock'' () rising to and lying to the south is the largest in a group of rocks extending from the cape. The area was visited by 19th century sealers. Cape Conway was charted in 1829 by the British naval expedition under Captain Henry Foster 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 which is south-southeast of Byewater Point, southwest of President Head, southwest of Hall Peninsula and east by north of Cape Smith, Smith Island (British mapping in 1821-22, 1935, 1951-51 and 1968, Argentine in 1946, Chilean in 1974, and Bulgarian in 2009).
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