[2] The US Defense Mapping Agency's Sailing Directions for Antarctica (1976) describes Vega Island as follows: Vega Island, the northernmost of the Ross Group, is about 16 miles long, east and west, and 5 miles wide, It is high and precipitous, with towerlike rocks; the lower fells of eruptive rock are plateaulike in form, and brown in color.

Cape Gordon is believed to be clear of dangers: the Wyatt Earp passed the high cliffs less than 100 yards distant.

Widely exposed and overlying it are 400 m (1,300 ft) of fine-grained strata in Lamb Member of the Snow Hill Island Formation.

The youngest exposed Cretaceous strata in Vegas Island belong to the Sandwich Bluff Member of the López de Bertodano Formation.

[7] The Cape Lamb Member of the Snow Hill Island Formation contains an extraordinarily abundant and diverse marine invertebrate macrofauna.

The López de Bertodano Formation exposed at Sandwich Bluff is also an important locality for its fossils of high-latitude, latest Cretaceous terrestrial plants and vertebrates in the Southern Hemisphere.

A rounded headland with vertical cliffs which rise to a small ice dome 395 metres (1,296 ft) high, forming the northwest end of Vega Island.

Discovered by the SwedAE under Otto Nordenskjöld, 1901-04, and named by him for Sir John Scott Keltie, Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, 1892-1915.

Charted in 1945 by the FIDS, and so named because a horizontal snow-holding band of rock breaks the western cliff giving it the appearance of a sandwich when viewed from the north.

A dark, conspicuous headland near the center of the north side of Vega Island, close south of Trinity Peninsula.

Discovered by a British expedition 1839-43, under James Clark Ross, and named by him for Captain William Gordon, RN, a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty[13] Southern features, from west to east, include:

A rounded bluff rising to 485 metres (1,591 ft) high, 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) inland from Cape Lamb in the southwest part of Vega Island.

A bay 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) wide, indenting the south side of Vega Island just west of Mahogany Bluff.

A rocky bluff 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) southwest of Cape Gordon, forming the east side of Pastorizo Bay.

[18] This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Geological Survey.