Cape Filchner
| Cape Filchner | ||
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 27 ′ S , 91 ° 54 ′ E | |
| location | East Antarctica | |
| coast | Queen Marie Land and Kaiser Wilhelm II Land | |
| Waters | Davissee | |
The Cape Filchner is a chapter in East Antarctica between the Queen Mary Land in the West and the Kaiser Wilhelm II Land to the east. It is located about 27 km west-northwest of Adams Island and protrudes into the Davis Sea.
On the western base stationed participants of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered it. Mawson named it after the German polar explorer Wilhelm Filchner (1877–1957), the head of the Second German Antarctic Expedition (1911–1912) and co-discoverer of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf .
Web links
- Cape Filchner in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Filchner on geographic.org (English)
- Cape Filchner in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)