Spike cap
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 18 ′ S , 163 ° 34 ′ E | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| coast | Scott coast | |
| Waters | McMurdo Sound | |
| Waters 2 | Bay of Sails | |
The spike Cape is a naked rock cape at the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is exposed by the retreat of the Wilson Piedmont Glacier and is 6.5 km south of Dunlop Island . The cape marks the northern limit of the entrance to the Bay of Sails .
Participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) led by British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott mapped it for the first time. It was named by the expedition geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880–1963) at the suggestion of the boatswain Robert Forde (1875–1959). It is named after the similarity to the island of Spike Island off Plymouth .
Web links
- Spike Cape in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Spike Cape on geographic.org (English)