Cape Barrow (Flat Island)
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 23 ′ S , 169 ° 16 ′ E | |
| location | Flat Island | |
| Waters | Somow Lake ( Southern Ocean ) | |
| Waters 2 | Robertson Bay | |
The Cape Barrow is the high northern cape of Flat Iceland before Pennell Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land along with the eastern Cape Adare it marks the entrance to Robertson Bay .
It was discovered in 1840 by the British polar explorer James Clark Ross during his Antarctic expedition (1839–1843). Ross thought the cape was a formation on the mainland coast and named it after John Barrow (1764-1848), founder of the Royal Geographical Society . Participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) refuted Ross' erroneous assumption about the location of the cape through their own measurements.
Web links
- Cape Barrow in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Barrow on geographic.org (English)