Cape Ellsworth
| Cape Ellsworth | ||
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 17 ′ S , 162 ° 18 ′ E | |
| location | Young Island , Balleny Islands | |
| Waters | Somow lake | |
The Cape Ellsworth is a 290 m high rocky cliff that the northern end of Young Iceland in the group of the East Antarctic Balleny Islands forms.
Participants in the British Discovery Investigations named the cape in 1936 after the American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth (1880-1951). The crew of the RRS Discovery II had taken Ellsworth in January 1936 after its Antarctic transcontinental flight from the research base Little America near the Bay of the Whales and then carried out surveys in the Balleny Islands on the way back to Australia .
Web links
- Cape Ellsworth in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Ellsworth on geographic.org (English)