Cape Tennyson
| Cape Tennyson | ||
 Map of Ross Island with Cape Tennyson north of Mount Terror |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 22 ′ S , 168 ° 19 ′ E | |
| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Waters | Ross Sea | |
| Waters 2 | Lewis Bay | |
The Cape Tennyson is a rocky headland on the north coast of the Antarctic Ross Island . The cape is about 40 km southeast of Cape Bird and marks the eastern boundary of Lewis Bay .
Participants in the British Southern Cross Expedition (1898–1900) led by the Norwegian polar explorer Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink discovered it in February 1900. Borchgrevink named it after the British poet Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892).
Web links
- Cape Tennyson in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape Tennyson on geographic.org (English)
- Cape Tennyson. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 298 (English)