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Cape Adare

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north-easternmost peninsula in Victoria Land, East Antarctica

Key facts

Location
Antarctica

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
cape
Continent
Antarctica
Body of water
Ross Sea
Image
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Cape Adare
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Encyclopedic overview

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cape Adare” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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