Cape Astrup

	Cape Astrup
	; photographed by Frederick Cook on the Belgica expedition (1897–1899)
	Geographical location
Coordinates	64 ° 43 ′ S , 63 ° 11 ′ W Coordinates: 64 ° 43 ′ S , 63 ° 11 ′ W
location	Wiencke Island , Palmer Archipelago
Waters	Gerlache Street
Waters 2	Neumayer Canal

The Cape Astrup ( French Cap Eivind Astrup ) is a vivid, dark-colored cape , which is the northern end of the Wiencke Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula marked. It forms the eastern boundary of the northern entrance from Gerlache Strasse into Neumayer Canal .

It was discovered during the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery . He named it after the Norwegian polar explorer Eivind Astrup (1871–1895), participant in the Greenland expeditions Robert Edwin Pearys from 1891 to 1892 and from 1893 to 1895.

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