Cape Legoupil
| Cape Legoupil | ||
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| Coordinates | 63 ° 19 ′ S , 57 ° 53 ′ W | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| coast | Trinity Peninsula | |
| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Waters 2 | Huon Bay | |
The Cape Legoupil is a cape on the west side of Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It marks the northeast side of the entrance from Bransfield Strait into Huon Bay .
Participants of the French Antarctic Expedition (1837-1840) under the direction of Jules Dumont d'Urville discovered it. It is named after the French painter and expedition member Ernest Auguste Goupil (1814–1840), who died of the consequences of the dysentery during this research trip .
Web links
- Cape Legoupil in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Legoupil on geographic.org (English)
- Cape Legoupil on a topographic map of the Trinity Peninsula, Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 649 (English).