Cape Possession
| Cape Possession | ||
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| Coordinates | 63 ° 44 ′ S , 61 ° 49 ′ W | |
| location | Chanticleer Island ( Palmer Archipelago , West Antarctica ) | |
| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
Cape Possession ( English for the Cape of possession ) is a cape , the western foothills of Chanticleer Iceland in the Palmer Archipelago northwest of the Antarctic Peninsula forms.
The British polar traveler Henry Foster named it after he landed here on January 7, 1829 while traveling on the HMS Chanticleer (1827-1831).
Web links
- Cape Possession in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Possession on geographic.org (English)