False Cape Renard
| False Cape Renard | ||
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 2 ′ S , 63 ° 49 ′ W | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| coast | Graham coast | |
| Waters | Butler passage | |
| Waters 2 | Lemaire Channel | |
The False Cape Renard ( English ; French Faux Cap Renard , both for False Cape Renard ) is a rocky cape on the Graham coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is 2.5 km southwest of Cape Renard on the northwestern foothills of the Kiev Peninsula .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899), led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery, mapped this cape on February 12, 1898. Henryk Arctowski , geologist, oceanographer and meteorologist on the expedition, named it together with Cape Renard as The Needles (English for the needles ). In order to better differentiate and avoid confusion, the French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot decided during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) to separate the two landmarks using the names that are now established. The namesake on both sides is the Belgian mineralogist Alphonse-François Renard (1842–1903), member of the commission of the Belgica expedition. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee transferred the name to English on July 7, 1959.
Web links
- False Cape Renard at the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- False Cape Renard on geographic.org (English)