Cape Gerlache
| Cape Gerlache | ||
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 30 ′ S , 99 ° 2 ′ E | |
| location | Queen Marie Land , East Antarctica | |
| coast | Davis Peninsula | |
| Waters | Mawson Lake | |
The Cape Gerlache is a cape which the northeastern foothills of the Davis Peninsula on the coast of the East Antarctic Queen Marie-country represents. It is 6 km southeast of David Island .
Participants of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered it in November 1912. Mawson named the cape after the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery (1866-1934).
Web links
- Cape Gerlache in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Gerlache on geographic.org (English)