Cape Goldie
| Cape Goldie | ||
 Map of the Holland Range , Cape Goldie (center left) |
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| Geographical location | ||
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| Coordinates | 82 ° 38 ′ S , 165 ° 54 ′ E | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| coast | Shackleton coast | |
| Waters | Ross Ice Shelf | |
| Waters 2 | Robb Glacier | |
The Cape Goldie is a chapter in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . On the Shackleton Coast , it protrudes into the Ross Ice Shelf in the mouth of the Robb Glacier .
Participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904), led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott, discovered it. Scott named it after the British administrator George Taubman Goldie (1846–1925), a member of the committee that determined the scope of the expedition's research.
Web links
- Cape Goldie in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Goldie on geographic.org