Cape Whitson [SEP] continent
Cape Whitson
Cape Whitson, is a headland on the south coast of Laurie Island, the easternmost and second largest of the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. It lies about 9 km south-east of Argentina’s Orcadas Base.
It is named after Sir Thomas Barnby Whitson, Lord Provost of Edinburgh at the time of its full mapping in the 1930s by the Edinburgh map-makers J.G.Bartholomew & Sons. 
Important Bird Area.
Cape Whitson has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife
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The Whitson estate in the Saughtonhall area of south-west Edinburgh is named after him, as is Cape Whitson in the South Orkneys and Whitson Bay in Spitzbergen. 
Family.
He married twice: firstly in 1902 to Wilhelmina (“Winnie”) Jamieson Adie (1872-1921) of Delting in Shetland; secondly in 1922, following the death of Winnie, to Mabel Christian Forbes (d.1971), daughter of George Edward Forbes. He had three children by his first marriage.