Cape Agassiz

	Cape Agassiz
	Geographical location
Coordinates	68 ° 26 ′ S , 62 ° 51 ′ W Coordinates: 68 ° 26 ′ S , 62 ° 51 ′ W
location	Border between Graham and Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula
coast	Bowman and Wilkins coast boundary
Waters	Mobiloil Inlet
Waters 2	Revelle Inlet

The Cape Agassiz is the eastern headland of the Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula , a narrow and buried under ice land strip between the Mobiloil Inlet and the Revelle Inlet from the mountain axis of the Antarctic Peninsula to the east in the Weddell Sea projects. In a straight line with the located on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula Cape Jeremy , it forms the border between the northern Graham Land with the Bowman Coast and Palmer country with Wilkins Coast in the south.

It was discovered in December 1940 by scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941), who named it after the US geographer WLG Joerg (1885–1952). At Joerg's instigation, the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names renamed the Cape in 1947 after the Swiss-American naturalist Louis Agassiz (1807–1873).

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