Cape Hinode
| Cape Hinode | ||
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 7 ′ S , 42 ° 38 ′ E | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| coast | Crown Prince Olav Coast | |
| Waters | Cosmonaut Lake | |
| surface | 8th 200 ha | |
Cape Hinode is a non-iced, rocky and 8.2 km² large cape on the Crown Prince Olav coast of the Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It is about 5 km west of the Akebono Glacier and 3 km west-northwest of the Bōhyō Heights .
It was mapped and photographed by participants in the Japanese Antarctic Expedition, which lasted from 1957 to 1962, who descriptively named it Hinode-misaki ( Japanese 日 の 出 岬 , Cape of the Sunrise ' ).
Web links
- Cape Hinode in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Hinode on geographic.org (English)