Cape Allen

Cape Allen
Cape Allen (right of center) and Mount Hope (left) photographed from the Ross Ice Shelf (1908)
Geographical location
Coordinates	83 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  S , 171 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 83 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  S , 171 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E
Waters 1	Ross Ice Shelf , Ross Sea

The Cape Allen is a snow-free headland at the Shackleton Coast in the Antarctic Ross Dependency , the northeastern together with about six kilometers Mount Hope a gateway of the Beardmore Glacier on the Ross Ice Shelf is, the so-called Gateway .

The cape was first used by participants of the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909) under the direction of British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton mapped and by Robert Calder Allen named (1812-1903), the skipper of the Resolute under Horatio Thomas Austin in the Belcher expedition to Search for the missing Franklin expedition .

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Cape Allen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Cape Allen on geographic.org (English)
• Cape Allen. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 41 (English)