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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.
Cape Tuxen
Cape Tuxen (Cap Tuxen) is a rocky cape at 65°16'S, 64°08'W on the Graham Coast, Antarctic Peninsula, forming the southwest entrance point of Waddington Bay in the Grandidier Channel; charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1898 and named for Johan Charles Tuxen of Copenhagen.
Cape Valentine
Cape Valentine (Valentine, Cape) is the east point of Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, named by Bransfield on St. Valentine's Day, 14 February 1820; site of the first BITAE landing after the loss of Endurance in 1916.
Cape Walcott
Cape Walcott is an ice-covered headland, 625 m high, on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica, at 69°05'S 63°20'W, terminating the Scripps Heights near Casey Inlet and the Casey Glacier.
Cape Wheeler
Cape Wheeler (Wheeler, Cape; Cabo Wheeler) is a 460-meter rock scarp on the Lassiter Coast, Palmer Land, Antarctica, forming the north side of the entrance to Wright Inlet; named by Ronne in 1947 for John N. Wheeler.
Cape Willems
Cape Willems (Willems, Cape; Cap Pierre Willems) is a cape at 64°57'S 63°16'W forming the northeast entrance point of Flandres Bay, Danco Coast, Graham Land, Antarctica; charted February 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition and named by Adrien de Gerlache for Pierre Willems.
Cape Wollaston
Cape Wollaston (Wollaston, Cape; Punta Cóndor; Cabo Martillo) is the NW point of Trinity Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, at 63°40'S 60°47'W, recharted by Foster in 1829 and named for British scientist William Hyde Wollaston.
Cape York Peninsula
Cape York Peninsula is the large peninsula making up the northernmost portion of Queensland, Australia, a sparsely populated region of tropical savannas, wetlands, and wild rivers.
Cape Zhelaniya
Cape Zhelaniya (Мыс Желания, "Cape of Wishes") is a cape at the northern end of Severny Island, Novaya Zemlya, Russia, marking the Barents–Kara Sea boundary.