Cape Hooker (Victoria Land)
| Cape Hooker | ||
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 38 ′ S , 166 ° 45 ′ E | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| coast | Pennell coast | |
| Waters | Somow lake | |
| Waters 2 | Yule Bay | |
The Cape Hooker is a cape at the northeast end of a peninsula on the Pennell Coast in the north of the Antarctic Victoria Land , which the Davis Ice Piedmont includes. Together with Cape Dayman to the north-northeast, it forms the entrance to Yule Bay .
The cape was discovered and named by the British explorer James Clark Ross during his Antarctic expedition (1839–1843). It is named after Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), assistant surgeon on the research ship HMS Erebus during this expedition, who later became an internationally renowned botanist.
Web links
- Cape Hooker in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Hooker on geographic.org (English)