Cape Frances
| Cape Frances | ||
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 30 ′ S , 164 ° 45 ′ E | |
| location | Sturge Island ( Balleny Islands ) | |
| Waters | Somow Lake ( Southern Ocean ) | |
Cape Frances is a cape on the east coast of Sturge Island in the archipelago of the East Antarctic Balleny Islands .
The British polar explorer James Clark Ross mistakenly believed Sturge Island to be a group of three islands, the middle of which he named Frances Island . Robert Falcon Scott clarified this error in 1904 during the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) and transferred Ross' name to this cape. The namesake is not known.
Web links
- Cape Frances in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Frances on geographic.org (English)