Cape Maude

Cape Maude
Geographical location
Coordinates	83 ° 9 ′  S , 168 ° 25 ′  E Coordinates: 83 ° 9 ′  S , 168 ° 25 ′  E
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
coast	Shackleton coast
Waters	Ross Ice Shelf

The Cape Maude is a towering, ice-covered cape at the Shackleton Coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It forms the eastern branch of the Vaughan Promontory in the Holland Range on the southwestern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf .

Participants in the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered it. It is named after the British Colonel Edward Addison (IA) Maude (1863–1932), who provided Shackleton with the food for the ponies he took on the research trip.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Cape Maude in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Cape Maude on geographic.org (English)
• Cape Maude. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 207 (English)