Cape surprise
| Cape surprise | ||
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 31 ′ S , 174 ° 25 ′ W | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| coast | Dufek coast | |
| Waters | Massam Glacier | |
| Waters 2 | Barrett Glacier | |
Cape Surprise ( English for Cape Surprise ) is a cape on the Dufek coast in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . At the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf , it marks the northern end of the Longhorn Spurs between the Massam and Barrett glaciers .
The southern group of a campaign from 1963 to 1964 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named it because, to their surprise, they first encountered sandstone layers of the so-called Beacon Supergroup from the Triassic and the Ferrar Supergroup from the Jurassic .
Web links
- Cape Surprise in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Surprise on geographic.org (English)