Cape Robert
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 23 ′ S , 137 ° 39 ′ E | |
| location | Adélieland , East Antarctica | |
| Waters | Lake D'Urville | |
| Waters 2 | Marret Glacier | |
Cape Robert is an icy cape on the coast of the East Antarctic Adelieland . It lies on the west side of the confluence of the Marret Glacier in the D'Urville Sea
Participants in the third French Antarctic expedition (1837-1840) under the direction of polar explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville discovered the cape. D'Urville named it after his youngest son. The area around the Cape was at the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson led the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) from 1912 to 1913 and in the evaluation performed also under his direction British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE, 1929-1931) in the year Mapped in 1931. Another position was determined using aerial photographs of the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947).
Web links
- Cape Robert in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Robert on geographic.org (English)