Cape Sterneck
| Cape Sterneck | ||
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 4 ′ S , 61 ° 2 ′ W | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| coast | Danco and Davis Coast | |
| Waters | Hughes Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Curtiss Bay | |
The Cape Sterneck ( French Cap von Sterneck , in the United Kingdom Cape Herschel ) is a cape in the form of a massive, black cliff on the border between the Danco and Davis coasts in Grahamland on the Antarctic Peninsula . At the north-western end of the Chawdar Peninsula , it limits the entrance to Hughes Bay to the north and that to Curtiss Bay to the south-west .
In 1898, the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery explored the region during the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) and named the bay after the Austro-Hungarian geophysicist Robert Daublebsky von Sterneck (1839-1910), designer of the half-second pendulum named after him to determine the longitude used on this research trip. The British name is named after the German-British astronomer and musician Wilhelm Herschel (1738–1822).
Web links
- Cape Sterneck in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Sterneck on geographic.org (English)