Cape Framnes
| Cape Framnes | ||
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 57 ′ S , 60 ° 33 ′ W | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| coast | Oskar II coast | |
| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
The Cape Framnes is a cape at the Oskar-II. coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It marks the northeast end of the Jason Peninsula .
The Norwegian Antarctic explorer Carl Anton Larsen discovered the cape in 1893 and named it descriptively ( Norwegian framnes , protruding headland ' ). Larsen described the formation as the furthest eastward from the mainland in the region he explored.
Web links
- Cape Framnes in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Framnes on geographic.org (English)