Cape Berteaux
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 51 ′ S , 67 ° 27 ′ W | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| coast | Fallières coast | |
| Waters | Mikkelsen Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Wordie Bay | |
The Cape Berteaux is about ragtes of a high cliff Cape at the Fallières Coast in the west of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies between Mikkelsen Bay and the part of Wordie Bay that was filled in by the Wordie Ice Shelf until the 1990s .
Participants of the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Charcot originally erroneously named the object as Berteaux Island. This error was corrected by survey work as part of the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . It was named after the French politician Maurice Berteaux (1852–1911), who helped raise funds for the French expedition.
Web links
- Cape Berteaux in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Berteaux on geographic.org (English)