Cape Day

Cape Day
Geographical location
Coordinates	76 ° 18 ′  S , 162 ° 46 ′  E Coordinates: 76 ° 18 ′  S , 162 ° 46 ′  E
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
coast	Scott coast
Waters	Nordenskjöld ice tongue
Waters 2	Ross Sea

The Cape Day is a headland at the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It marks around 17.5 km east of Mount Gauss (not to be confused with the Gaußberg ) the south side of the mouth of the Nordenskjöld ice tongue into the Ross Sea .

The cape was discovered and named by participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907–1909) of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . It is named after Bernard Day (1884–1934), a participant in the expedition and the first driver of a motorized land vehicle in the Antarctic.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Cape Day in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Cape Day on geographic.org (English)
• Cape Day. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 101. (English)