Cape Lancaster

	Cape Lancaster
	Geographical location
Coordinates	64 ° 51 ′ S , 63 ° 43 ′ W Coordinates: 64 ° 51 ′ S , 63 ° 43 ′ W
location	Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago , West Antarctica
Waters	Bismarck Street
Waters 2	Neumayer Canal

The Cape Lancaster ( French Cap Albert Lancaster ) is a rocky Cape , the southern foothills of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula forms.

Its discoverer is the German polar explorer Eduard Dallmann during his Antarctic expedition on the Groenland (1873–1874). It was later spotted on the Belgica expedition (1897–1899). Its head, the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery , named the cape after the Belgian astronomer Albert-Benoît-Marie Lancaster (1849-1908), scientific director of the meteorological service of the Royal Observatory of Belgium and a supporter of the expedition.

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