Cape Reynolds

Cape Reynolds
Map of the Drygalski Ice Tongue and Cape Reynolds (left edge of the map)
Geographical location
Coordinates	75 ° 25 ′  S , 162 ° 35 ′  E Coordinates: 75 ° 25 ′  S , 162 ° 35 ′  E
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
coast	Scott coast
Waters	Geikie Inlet
Waters 2	David Glacier

The Cape Reynolds is an ice-covered, rocky towering Cape at the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located on the northwest bank of Geikie Inlet and marks the southern flank of the transition from David Glacier to Drygalski Ice Tongue .

Participants in the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered it. It is named after the American publicist and adventurer Jeremiah N. Reynolds (1799-1858), who developed the idea of ​​an expedition to the South Pole in the 1830s.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Cape Reynolds in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Cape Reynolds on geographic.org (English)
• Cape Reynolds. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 257. (English)