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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 The peninsula was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) for Cape Adare. [ 1 ]
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.
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.
Scientists accidentally discovered an 118-year-old painting by one of Britain's most famous explorers in Antarctica.
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 ]