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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 ...
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 The peninsula was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) for Cape Adare. [ 1 ]
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.
Small island which is the southernmost of the Possession Islands, lying east of the south end of the Adare Peninsula. Named by a Norwegian expedition of 1894-95, led by Bull and Kristensen, for Messrs. Thos, Joh. Heftye and Son of Christiania (now Oslo), shareholders in the expedition ship Antarctic. [3]
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Cape Roget, the northern point of the bay, is the southern point on the Adare Peninsula. To the west of Cape Roget the Moubray Glacier flows south to the bay from the Adare Saddle. The DeAngelo Glacier and Slone Glacier are its tributaries, running southeast from the Admiralty Mountains. [2]
It concentrated on the stretch of Antarctic coastline between Cape Adare and Mount Gauss, carrying out mapping and survey work on coastal and inland territories. Discoveries included Commonwealth Bay, Ninnis Glacier, Mertz Glacier, and Queen Mary Land. Major accomplishments were made in geology, glaciology and terrestrial biology. [92]
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.