Cape Polar Sea
| Cape Polar Sea | ||
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| Coordinates | 73 ° 32 ' S , 169 ° 27' E | |
| location | Coulman Island ( East Antarctica ) | |
| Waters | Glacier Strait | |
Cape Polar Sea is a cape on the western foothills of Coulman Island off the Borchgrevink coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names renamed it in 1998. It is named after the icebreaker USCGC Polar Sea , which from 1980 to 1997 in eleven Antarctic campaigns of the United States Antarctic Program mainly in the Ross Sea , the Amundsen Sea and in the Bellingshausen Sea had been used .
Web links
- Cape Polar Sea in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Polar Sea on geographic.org (English)