Cape Elliott [SEP] continent
Cape Elliott
Cape Elliott () is an ice-covered cape marking the northern extremity of the Knox Coast of Wilkes Land, Antarctica. It fronts on Shackleton Ice Shelf, southwest of Bowman Island. It was delineated from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946–47) and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after J.L. Elliott, chaplain on the sloop "Vincennes" of the United States Exploring Expedition (1838–42) under Charles Wilkes.
part of the continent and unable to find gold and silver, wrote ("nothing here" in Portuguese), or ("Cape Nothing" in Spanish) on that part of their maps. An alternative explanation favoured by philologist Marshall Elliott linked the name to the Spanish word "cañada", meaning "glen" or "valley".
The earliest iterations of the Spanish "nothing here" theory stated that the explorers made the declaration upon visiting the Bay of Chaleur, while later versions left out any identifying geographic