Cape Roberts

Cape Roberts
Map with Cape Roberts (top left)
Geographical location
Coordinates	77 ° 2 ′  S , 163 ° 12 ′  E Coordinates: 77 ° 2 ′  S , 163 ° 12 ′  E
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
coast	Scott coast
Waters	Granite Harbor
Waters 2	Wilson Piedmont Glacier

The Cape Roberts is a promontory at the Scott-coast of the east Antarctic Victoria Land The chapter is at the northeast end of the Wilson-Piedmont glacier the southern border the entrance to Granite Harbor ,

Participants in the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered it. It is named after William Roberts (* 1872), assistant zoologist and cook of the expedition team. From 1997 to 1999, drill cores were taken from the Cape as part of the Cape Roberts Project to reconstruct the history of the glaciation of Antarctica.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Cape Roberts in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Cape Roberts on geographic.org
• Cape Roberts. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 260. (English)