Cape Boggs is a bold, ice-covered headland

Headland

A headland is a point of land, usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends out into a body of water.Headland can also refer to:*Headlands and bays*headLand, an Australian television series...

 marking the east extremity of Eielson Peninsula

Eielson Peninsula

Eielson Peninsula is a rugged, mainly snow-covered peninsula, 20 nautical miles long in an east-west direction and averaging 10 nautical miles wide, lying between Smith Inlet and Lehrke Inlet on the east coast of Palmer Land...

, on the east coast of Palmer Land

Palmer Land

Palmer Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between US-ACAN and UK-APC, in which the name Antarctic Peninsula was approved for the major peninsula of...

. Discovered by members of East Base of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) who charted this coast by land and from the air in 1940. Named for S.W. Boggs, Geographer, Dept. of State, whose political and geographical studies of Antarctica were used by the USAS.