Cape Well-met
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| Coordinates | 63 ° 47 ′ S , 57 ° 20 ′ W | |
| location | Vega Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Waters | Prince Gustav Canal | |
Cape Well-met is a dark, distinctive and 220 m high headland on Vega Island off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located immediately south of the Trinity Peninsula near the center of the north coast of the island and protrudes into the Prince Gustav Canal .
Participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) led by Otto Nordenskjöld discovered the cape in October 1903. Subsequently, it appeared in the expedition reports and maps under the names Cape Dreyfus , Møtesudden (Swedish for Cape of Encounter ) and Cape of Good Encounter . In later years the English variant of the latter name prevailed. The background to this naming is that on October 12, 1903, two groups of the Swedish expedition met again after a separation of almost one and a half years.
Web links
- Cape Well-met in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Well-met on geographic.org (English)