Cape Ross

Cape Ross
Geographical location
Coordinates	76 ° 44 ′  S , 163 ° 1 ′  E Coordinates: 76 ° 44 ′  S , 163 ° 1 ′  E
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
coast	Scott coast
Waters	Ross Sea
height	54 m

The Cape Ross is a 54  m high cape of granite on the Scott-coast of the east Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located around 13 km north of Cape Archer .

Participants in the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered it. It is named after the British polar explorer James Clark Ross (1800–1862), who explored the Antarctic between 1839 and 1843.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Cape Ross in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Cape Ross on geographic.org
• Cape Ross. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 265. (English)