Cape May
| Cape May | ||
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| Coordinates | 81 ° 50 ′ S , 162 ° 50 ′ E | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| coast | Shackleton coast | |
| Waters | Ross Ice Shelf | |
Cape May is a rocky cape on the Shackleton Coast of Antarctica's Ross Dependency . At the northeast end of the Jacobs Peninsula , it juts 13 km southeast of Cape Laird into the Ross Ice Shelf .
The British polar explorers Robert Falcon Scott , Edward Adrian Wilson and Ernest Shackleton discovered it in December 1902 when they marched together over the Ross Ice Shelf during the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904). Scott named it after Admiral William Henry May (1849–1930), Third Naval Lord from 1901 to 1905.
Web links
- Cape May in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape May on geographic.org (English)