Cape Chocolate
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Cape Chocolate is a small, dark cape forming the south side of Salmon Bay on the coast of Victoria Land
. It is made up of morainic material from the west margin of the Koettlitz Glacier
. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Robert Falcon Scott
, and probably so named because of the color of the morainic material.
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...
. It is made up of morainic material from the west margin of the Koettlitz Glacier
Koettlitz Glacier
The Koettlitz Glacier is a large Antarctic glacier lying west of Mount Morning and Mount Discovery, flowing from the vicinity of Mount Cocks northeastward between Brown Peninsula and the mainland into the ice shelf of McMurdo Sound....
. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Robert Falcon Scott
Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13...
, and probably so named because of the color of the morainic material.