Cape Descent
| Cape Descent | ||
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 51 ′ S , 77 ° 57 ′ E | |
| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| coast | Ingrid Christensen Coast | |
| Waters | Prydz Bay | |
The Cape Descent (from English descent , slope, slope ' ) is a cape on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It is just south of the Mather Peninsula . Offshore to the southwest is Pchelka Island in the group of the Rauer Islands . The cape consists of a group of three hills flanked by moraines . Rock samples taken here in 1976 showed an age of over 3.4 billion years.
Australian scientists named the cape. It was named after a reconnaissance march carried out in 1992, which ended on the steep, icy flanks of the cape in the north and west.
Web links
- Cape Descent in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)