Cape Murray (Ross Ice Shelf)
| Cape Murray | ||
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| Coordinates | 79 ° 35 ′ S , 160 ° 11 ′ E | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| coast | Hillary coast | |
| Waters | Ross Ice Shelf | |
| Waters 2 | Carlyon Glacier | |
 Topographic map (1: 250,000) with Cape Murray (center) |
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Cape Murray is a mainly icy, cliff-like headland on the Hillary Coast in Antarctica's Ross Dependency . The cape is located on the north side of the mouth of the Carlyon Glacier in the western flank of the Ross Ice Shelf .
Participants of the Discovery Expedition (1901–1904), led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott, discovered the cape. They named it after the Scottish botanist George Robert Milne Murray (1858-1911), temporarily head of the scientific staff of the expedition, who had accompanied the research ship RRS Discovery to Cape Town .
Web links
- Cape Murray in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Murray on geographic.org (English)