Cape Moyes
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 35 ′ S , 96 ° 25 ′ E | |
| location | Queen Marie Land , East Antarctica | |
| Waters | Shackleton Ice Shelf | |
The Cape Moyes is a cape on the coast of the East Antarctic Queen Marie-country . It protrudes 29 km west of Cape Dover into the Shackleton Ice Shelf .
Participants of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered it. Mawson named it after Morton Henry Moyes (1886–1981), meteorologist on the expedition to the west base.
Web links
- Cape Moyes in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Moyes on geographic.org (English)