Cape Kinsey
| Cape Kinsey | ||
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 19 ′ S , 158 ° 48 ′ E | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| coast | Oates coast | |
| Waters | Somow lake | |
| Waters 2 | Davies Bay | |
The Cape Kinsey is an ice-covered cape at the Oates Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . To the west of the tongue of the Tomilin Glacier, it marks the eastern boundary of the entrance from the Somow Sea to Davies Bay .
It was discovered by Lieutenant Harry Lewin Lee Pennell (1882-1916), a crew member of the Terra Nova during the Antarctic expedition of the same name (1910-1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . It is named after the shipping entrepreneur Joseph James Kinsey (1852–1936), the official representative of this research trip in Christchurch, New Zealand .
Web links
- Cape Kinsey in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Kinsey on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 857 (English).