Cape Betbeder
| Cape Betbeder | ||
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| Coordinates | 63 ° 37 ′ S , 56 ° 41 ′ W | |
| location | Andersson Island | |
| Waters | Erebus and Terror Golf | |
| Waters 2 | Fridtjof-Sund | |
Cape Betbeder is a cape at the southwestern end of Andersson Island off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula . It marks the entrance from the Erebus and Terror Gulf into the Fridtjof Sund .
It was mapped by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under the direction of Otto Nordenskjöld . He named the cape after Vice-Admiral Onofre Betbeder (1860-1914), the Argentine Minister of the Navy at the time, who arranged for the corvette Uruguay to be made available to rescue the expedition members after their own ship sank.
Web links
- Cape Betbeder in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Betbeder on geographic.org (English)