1,338 articles
Cape Kaiser
Cape Kaiser (Cap Kaiser, Cabo Kaiser) is a cape at the northern end of Lecointe Island, east of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, at about 64°14'S 62°00'W; discovered and named by de Gerlache's 1897-99 Belgian expedition for Pierre Kaiser.
Cape Keeler
Cape Keeler (Cabo Keeler) is an ice-covered cape at 68°51'S 63°13'W on the Wilkins Coast, Palmer Land, Antarctica, the SW entrance point of Revelle Inlet, discovered by Hubert Wilkins in 1928 and named for Fred E. Keeler of Lockheed.
Cape Kinnes
Cape Kinnes (Kinnes, Cape) is the western cape of Joinville Island, off the northeast Antarctic Peninsula, at about 63°21'S 56°33'W. Named for R. Kinnes by the 1892-93 Dundee whaling expedition; distinct from Cape Kinsey, Oates Land.
Cape Knowles
Cape Knowles (Cabo Knowles) is a 305 m cape on the Black Coast, east Palmer Land, Antarctica, at 71°48′S 60°50′W, marking the north side of Hilton Inlet's entrance; discovered by the U.S. Antarctic Service in 1940 and named for geologist Paul H. Knowles.
Cape Lancaster
Cape Lancaster (Lancaster, Cape; Albert Lancaster, Cap) is a cape at the southern point of Anvers Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, at the SW entrance to Neumayer Channel, charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1898 and named for Albert Lancaster.
Cape Legoupil
Cape Legoupil, a cape at the northeast entrance of Huon Bay, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula, at 63°19'S 57°54'W; charted 1838 by d'Urville's French expedition, named for artist Ernest-Auguste Goupil, site of Chile's O'Higgins station (1948) and the Early Triassic Legoupil Formation.
Cape Lindsey
Cape Lindsey (Lindsey, Cape) is a cape on Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, at 61°06'S 55°29'W; roughly charted and named by Powell in 1820-22, distinct from the Lindsey Islands of the Amundsen Sea.
Cape Lloyd
Cape Lloyd (Lloyd, Cape) is the north point of Clarence Island, South Shetland Islands, British Antarctic Territory, at 61°07'47.3"S 54°00'37.1"W; charted by Bransfield in February 1820 as Lloyds Promontory.
Cape Longing
Cape Longing (Cabo Deseo) is a rocky cape on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, at 64°33'S 58°50'W, discovered by Nordenskjöld's Swedish Antarctic Expedition in 1902 and named for his 'land of longing' seen from Snow Hill Island.
Cape Lookout
Cape Lookout: name of several headlands, chiefly a 240 m bluff at the southern end of Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica (charted 1822 by George Powell), plus Cape Lookout National Seashore, North Carolina, and an Oregon cape.
Cape Mascart
Cape Mascart (Mascart, Cape; Spanish Mascart, Cabo) is the northern cape of Adelaide Island, Antarctica, at about 66°37'S 67°41'W, charted by Charcot's 1903-05 French expedition and named for physicist Eleuthere Mascart.
Cape Mawson
Cape Mawson is a cape forming the southeast point of Charcot Island in the Bellingshausen Sea off the Antarctic Peninsula, named by Hubert Wilkins after Douglas Mawson in 1929.
Cape Melville
Cape Melville names two headlands: the eastern cape of King George Island, South Shetland Islands, charted by Bransfield in 1820, and a Cape York Peninsula cape in Queensland, landfall of Cyclone Mahina in 1899.
Cape Monaco
Cape Monaco (Monaco, Cape) is a cape at the NW entrance of Wylie Bay and SW tip of Anvers Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica; charted by Dallmann 1873-74 and named by Charcot 1903-05 for Prince Albert I of Monaco.
Cape Murray (cape)
Cape Murray is the name of two Antarctic capes: one at 64°21'S 61°38'W ending Murray Island off Graham Land, charted by de Gerlache's Belgian expedition and named for Sir John Murray; another at 79°35'S 160°11'E on the Ross Ice Shelf edge.
Cape Musselman
Cape Musselman is a cape on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica, at 71°17′S 61°00′W, forming the south side of the entrance to Palmer Inlet; discovered by the USAS in 1940 and named for Lytton C. Musselman.
Cape Neumayer
Cape Neumayer (Neumayer, Cape) is the NE point of Trinity Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, at 63°42'S 60°33'W; charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in 1902 and named after geophysicist Georg B. von Neumayer. Distinct from Cap Neumayer in Kerguelen and Cape Neumayer in Papua New Guinea.
Cape of Good Hope
Cape of Good Hope (Cabo da Boa Esperança): rocky headland on South Africa's Cape Peninsula, rounded by Bartolomeu Dias in 1488 and renamed from Cape of Storms; not Africa's southernmost point, which is Cape Agulhas.
Cape Pérez
Cape Pérez (Cap des Trois Pérez) is a cape between Collins Bay and Beascochea Bay on Kyiv Peninsula, west Graham Land, Antarctica, at 65°24'S 64°06'W; charted by Gerlache as Cape Trooz, renamed by Charcot in 1904 for the Pérez brothers of Buenos Aires.
Cape Point
Cape Point, a promontory on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa, site of the 1859 and 1919 lighthouses and the 1911 Lusitania wreck; not Africa's southernmost tip, which is Cape Agulhas.
Cape Purvis
Cape Purvis, also Cabo Purvis, is a cape at 63°35'S 55°58'W forming the south extremity of Dundee Island, Antarctic Peninsula; named by James Ross in 1842 for Commodore John B. Purvis, and site of a 132 ± 19 ka volcano.
Cape Renard
Cape Renard, also Cap Renard, is a 740 m twin-needle headland on the Antarctic Peninsula's west coast dividing Danco Coast from Graham Coast, named 1898 after Belgian mineralogist Alphonse Renard; no longer a cape, now Renard Island with Una Peaks.
Cape Rey
Cape Rey is a dark, cliff-faced cape at 66°36'S, 66°27'W on the Loubet Coast of Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula. It forms the northeastern entrance point of Lallemand Fjord and hosted a Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey base on an offshore island.
Cape Robinson
Cape Robinson, also Robinson Island (original form), is a cape at 66°52'S 63°43'W marking the east end of Cole Peninsula, Foyn Coast, Graham Land, Antarctica, named for W.S. Robinson after Wilkins's 1928 flight; distinct from Cape Robertson, Laurie Island.
Cape Roquemaurel
Cape Roquemaurel, Cabo Roquemaurel: a cape on the northwest coast of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula, at Bone Bay's entrance, 63°33'S 58°56'W, named for Gaston de Rocquemaurel of Dumont d'Urville's 1837-1840 Astrolabe expedition.
Cape Sharbonneau
Cape Sharbonneau, also listed as Sharbonneau, Cabo, is a cape on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica, at about 70°52'S 61°19'W, recorded in the AADC and SCAR gazetteers.
Cape Shirreff
Cape Shirreff (Cabo Shirreff, cabo Alvarado) is an ice-free peninsula on Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, at 62°27'S 60°47'W, named by Bransfield in 1820, holding the Antarctic Peninsula's largest Antarctic fur seal colony and protected as ASPA 149.
Cape Smith
Cape Smith is the northeast cape of Smith Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, at 62°52′S 62°18′W, charted and named by Captain William Smith in October 1819; also capes in Alaska and Nunavik, Canada.
Cape Spear
Cape Spear, Newfoundland: headland 12 km southeast of St. John's, the most easterly point of Canada, home to the 1836 lighthouse (oldest surviving in Newfoundland and Labrador), the Cantwell keeper family, and Fort Cape Spear WWII battery.
Cape Sterneck
Cape Sterneck, called Cape Herschel in UK usage, is a bold black cliff at 64°04′S 61°02′W on the north side of the entrance to Hughes Bay, west Antarctic Peninsula, dividing Davis Coast from Danco Coast; named in 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition for geophysicist Robert von Sterneck.