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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 ] It is the site of the first confirmed landing on the Antarctic mainland—undertaken from Antarctic in 1895—and the first base on the Antarctic mainland—established by ...
The Adare Peninsula), is a high ice-covered peninsula, 40 nautical miles (74 km; 46 mi) long, in the northeast part of Victoria Land, 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. [1]
Gertrude Rock) was the northern of two rocks called The Sisters, off the northern extremity of Cape Adare, Victoria Land, AntarcticaThe Sisters as a group were named by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898–1900; the individual rocks were named by Victor Campbell, leader of the Northern Party of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, at the suggestion of George Murray Levick, after ...
In 2017, conservationists at Cape Adare, Victoria Land, unearthed an ice-covered fruitcake that they believe once belonged to the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. [5] Scott's Northern Party expedition was in 1911, making the age of the fruitcake 106 years old. [5] A program manager said it was in “excellent condition." [5]
Robertson Bay extends between Cape Barrow in the west and Cape Adare in the east. Protection Cove in the south is the head of the bay. Cape Barrow is on Flat Island, east of Siren Bay and north of Cape Wood. Shipley Glacier divides and enters Robertson Bay to the west and to the south of the island, where it flows into Pressure Bay.
The Borchgrevink Coast is that portion of the coast of Victoria Land between Cape Adare and Cape Washington. The name was recommended by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1961 after Carsten Borchgrevink , a member of Henrik Johan Bull 's expedition to this area, 1894–95, and leader of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898 ...
To the west of Cape Williams lies Oates Coast, and to the east and south of Cape Adare lies Borchgrevink Coast. Named by New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) in 1961 after Lieutenant Harry Pennell , Royal Navy , commander of the Terra Nova , the expedition ship of the British Antarctic Expedition , 1910–13.
The Adare Trough is a single, northwest–southeast trending, graben roughly 120 km long with high rifted flanks located centrally in the Adare Basin, 100 km northwest of Cape Adare. The flanks are roughly 40 km apart and are asymmetrical when compared to one another, with the East flank rising higher than the west by roughly 550 meters.