Cape Bird
| Cape Bird | ||
 Map of Ross Island with Cape Bird in the northwest (top left) |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 10 ′ S , 166 ° 42 ′ E | |
| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Waters | Ross Sea | |
| Waters 2 | McMurdo Sound | |
The Cape Bird is the northern headland on the by the Mount Bird dominated peninsula in the northwestern part of the Antarctic Ross Island .
The cape was discovered in 1841 during the British Antarctic Expedition (1839–1843) led by James Clark Ross , who named it after Lieutenant Edward Joseph Bird (1798–1881) of the HMS Erebus , one of the two ships of the expedition.
Web links
- Cape Bird in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Bird on geographic.org (English)