Cape Menzel

	Cape Menzel
	Geographical location
Coordinates	72 ° 3 ′ S , 95 ° 46 ′ W Coordinates: 72 ° 3 ′ S , 95 ° 46 ′ W
location	Thurston Island , West Antarctica
Waters	Bellingshausen lake
Waters 2	Cadwalader Inlet
	; Map of Thurston Island with Cape Menzel at the end of the Lofgren Peninsula (top right)

The Cape Menzel is a monstrous rock cape at the northeast end of Thurston Island before Eights Coast of the West Antarctic Ellsworthlands . It represents the seaward foothills of the Lofgren Peninsula .

It was discovered in February 1960 during helicopter flights from the USCGC Burton Island and the USS Glacier as part of the United States Navy research trip to the Bellingshausen Sea . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after the German-born geomagnetologist and seismologist Reinhard Wolfgang Menzel (* 1942), who was part of the occupation of the Eights station in the Antarctic winter of 1965.

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