Cape Kløvstad
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 39 ′ S , 170 ° 6 ′ E | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| coast | Pennell coast | |
| Waters | Colbeck Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Protection Cove | |
The Cape Kløvstad (also in the orthographic misspelling Klap Klövstad is known) a rugged rocky cape at the head of the Robertson Bay on the Pennell Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It lies between Colbeck Bay in the west and Protection Cove in the east.
Participants in the British Southern Cross Expedition (1898–1900) headed by the Norwegian polar explorer Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink mapped it for the first time. Borchgrevink named it after Herluf Kløvstad (1868–1900), the Norwegian doctor on the expedition, who died of typhus shortly after returning from Antarctica .
Web links
- Cape Klövstad in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Klövstad on geographic.org (English)