Cape Renard

	Cape Renard
	; Cape Renard with the Una Peaks
	Geographical location
Coordinates	65 ° 1 ′ S , 63 ° 46 ′ W Coordinates: 65 ° 1 ′ S , 63 ° 46 ′ W
location	Renard Island , West Antarctica
coast	Danco and Graham coast
Waters	Bay of Flanders
Waters 2	Butler passage

Cape Renard ( French: Cap Renard ) is a prominent point of land , which is dominated by two up to 740 m high rock needles , the Una Peaks . Their flanks are so steep that no snow sticks to them. The on the island Renard Iceland situated Cape marks the entrance to the south-west Flanders Bay and shares on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula , the Danco Coast of the Graham Coast .

It was discovered by the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery . He named the cape after the Belgian mineralogist Alphonse-François Renard (1842–1903), a member of the expedition commission.

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