Cape Adam
| Cape Adam | ||
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| Coordinates | 75 ° 0 ′ S , 62 ° 30 ′ W | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| coast | Border between the Orville and Lassiter coasts | |
| Waters | Gardner Inlet | |
| Waters 2 | Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf | |
The Cape Adams is a steeply sloping cape at the southern end of Bowman Peninsula and bounded to the north, the entrance to Gardner Inlet on the east coast of the West Antarctic Palmer Lands .
It was discovered during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) under the direction of the US polar explorer Finn Ronne , who named it after Charles J. Adams (1921-2002), a pilot in the United States Army Air Forces and participant in the Research trip.
Web links
- Cape Adams in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Adams on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 6 (English).