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Cape Adare is located in Antarctica
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Location of Cape Adare
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Area map of Cape Adare
Topographic map of the Cape Adare region
Borchgrevink's 1899 hut (HSM 22) surrounded by penguins
Nicolai Hanson's grave (HSM 23) – 1899 photograph
Adélie penguins on an ice foot at Cape Adare – photo by George Murray Levick, 1911 or 1912
Adélie penguins at Cape Adare

Cape Adare is a prominent cape of black basalt forming the northern tip of the Adare Peninsula and the north-easternmost extremity of Victoria Land, East Antarctica.[1]

  1. ^ Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Cape Adare". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

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Cape Adare

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Cape Adare Cape Adare is a prominent cape of black basalt forming the northern tip of the Adare Peninsula and the north-easternmost extremity of Victoria...

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Adare Peninsula

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extending south from Cape Adare to Cape Roget. The peninsula was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) for Cape Adare. The peninsula...

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Robertson Bay

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triangular bay that indents the north coast of Victoria Land between Cape Barrow and Cape Adare. Discovered in 1841 by Captain James Clark Ross, Royal Navy, who...

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Southern Cross Expedition

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sailed in the Southern Cross, and spent the southern winter of 1899 at Cape Adare, the northwest extremity of the Ross Sea coastline. Here they carried...

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List of unexplained sounds

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most likely between Bransfield Straits and the Ross Sea, or possibly at Cape Adare in Antarctica, a well-known source of cryogenic signals. Julia Julia sound...

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Transantarctic Mountains

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Antarctica which extends, with some interruptions, across the continent from Cape Adare in northern Victoria Land to Coats Land. These mountains divide East Antarctica...

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Bloop

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most likely between Bransfield Strait and the Ross Sea; or possibly at Cape Adare, a well-known source of cryogenic signals. Sounds generated by ice quakes...

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Australasian Antarctic Expedition

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base, under Mawson's command, was set up at Cape Denison, about 500 kilometres (300 mi) west of Cape Adare, and a western base under Frank Wild was established...

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Cape Hallett

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Antarctica. Cape Adare lies 100 km (62 mi) to the north. In 1956, during Operation Deep Freeze II, USS Arneb was damaged by an ice floe at Cape Hallett....

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Carsten Borchgrevink

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the Antarctic Circle. On 24 January, the ship reached the vicinity of Cape Adare, at the northern extremity of the Victoria Land coastline of the Antarctic...

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Cape Evans

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Cape Evans (77°38′S 166°24′E / 77.633°S 166.400°E / -77.633; 166.400 (Cape Evans)) is a rocky cape on the west side of Ross Island, Antarctica, forming...

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Terra Nova Expedition

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location approximately 250 miles (400 km) south of Cape Adare and 200 miles (320 km) northwest of Cape Evans. They were to be picked up on 18 February after...

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History of Antarctica

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lecture given by Murray. The Norwegian ship Antarctic was put ashore at Cape Adare, on 24 January 1895. In August 1895 the Sixth International Geographical...

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Ernest Shackleton

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Douglas Mawson about a scientific expedition to the Antarctic coast between Cape Adare and Gaussberg, and had written to the RGS about this in February 1910...

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Adare Basin

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The Adare Basin is a geologic structural basin located north-east of Cape Adare of Antarctica, for which its named, and north of the western Ross Sea...

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George Murray Levick

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summer of 1911–1912 at Cape Adare in the midst of an Adélie penguin rookery. To date, this has been the only study of the Cape Adare rookery, the largest...

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Necrophilia

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described "little hooligan bands" of penguins mating with dead females in the Cape Adare rookery, the largest group of Adélie penguins, in 1911 and 1912. This...

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Quam Heights

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Scott, Mate on the Terror. Alberts 1995, p. 598. Ebbe Glacier USGS. Cape Adare USGS. Alberts 1995, p. 518. Alberts 1995, p. 537. Alberts 1995, p. 657...

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Research stations in Antarctica

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a Norwegian/British explorer, led the British Antarctic Expedition to Cape Adare, where he established the first Antarctic base on Ridley Beach. This expedition...

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Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration

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plans for a full-scale pioneering Antarctic expedition, to be based at Cape Adare. However, the inauguration of the Heroic Age is now generally considered...

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Somov Sea

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between 150° and 170° East. West of it would be the D'Urville Sea. East of Cape Adare, at 170°14' East, is the Ross Sea. The name was first proposed by the...

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Hut Point Peninsula

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the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13 (BAE), under Scott, wintering on Cape Evans and often using the hut during their journeys, came to refer to the...

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Iceberg

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"Kinematic and seismic analysis of giant tabular iceberg breakup at Cape Adare, Antarctica". Journal of Geophysical Research. 115 (B6): B06311. Bibcode:2010JGRB...

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Snow Hill Island

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northeast extremity. The northernmost point of Snow Hill Island is Cape Lázara. The cape was named "Cabo Costa Lázara" by the command of the Argentine ship...

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