Cape Christmas
| Cape Christmas | ||
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 20 ′ S , 60 ° 40 ′ W | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| coast | Black coast | |
| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Waters 2 | Desolate inlet | |
The Cape Christmas is a 320 m high and steep sloping rocky cape on the Black Coast of Palmer Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It marks the north side of the entrance to the Wüst Inlet .
Participants in the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) discovered and photographed it from the air in December 1940. Further aerial photographs were taken in 1947 during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948), which also carried out the geodetic survey on site in collaboration with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). The FIDS named the cape so because the meeting with the scientists of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition took place here on Christmas Day 1947.
Web links
- Cape Christmas in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Christmas on geographic.org (English)