Cape mousse
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 48 ′ S , 141 ° 28 ′ E | |
| location | Adélieland , East Antarctica | |
| Waters | Lake D'Urville | |
| height | 29 m | |
The Cape Mousse ( French for Cape Moss ) is a small, rocky cape on the coast of the East Antarctic Adélielands . It is 4 km southwest of Cape Découverte . In front of it are numerous small islands , while to the south there is a moraine that pushes through the ice cover. The highest point of the cape is the hill Le Phare with 29 m .
Participants in a French Antarctic expedition that lasted from 1949 to 1951 mapped the cape and named it after the lichens and mosses found here .
Web links
- Cape Mousse in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Mousse on geographic.org (English)