Cape Fie
Cape Fie Discovery Point |
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Coordinates | 54 ° 27 ′ S , 3 ° 25 ′ E | |
location | Bouvet Island | |
Waters | South Atlantic |
Cape Fie ( Norwegian Kapp Fie , also known as English Discovery Point ) is a small cape on the southeast coast of Bouvet Island . It separates the Vogt coast in the west from the Mowinckel coast in the north.
The first mapping was carried out in 1898 during the Valdivia expedition under Carl Chun . Cape Fie was mapped again and finally named in December 1927 during the first Antarctic voyage with the whale and sealer Norvegia (1927–1928) under Captain Harald Horntvedt (1879–1946), which was financed by the Norwegian whaling entrepreneur Lars Christensen . It is named after Christensen's youngest daughter Augusta Sofie (* 1919), known as "Fie".
Web links
- Kapp Fie in The Place Names in Norwegian Polar Areas , Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo (English / Norwegian)
- Cape Fie in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
Individual evidence
- ↑ Discovery Point on geographic.org (accessed June 24, 2020).